As the Cultural Revolution rages, Zhang falls in love with a peasant woman jailed for promiscuity. After becoming separated for years, they unite, but Zhang has been made impotent, "half a man", which eventually destroys their relationship.
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As the Cultural Revolution rages, Zhang falls in love with a peasant woman jailed for promiscuity. After becoming separated for years, they unite, but Zhang has been made impotent, "half a man", which eventually destroys their relationship.
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This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear.
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Good. Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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New York. 1988. August 1988. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393025861. Translated from the Chinese by Martha Avery. 285 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lizzy Rockwell/Kenneth Alcorn. keywords: Literature China Asia. FROM THE PUBLISHER-As the Cultural Revolution rages, a gulag of labor camps in China's remote, harshly beautiful countryside teaches ‘capitalist roaders' and criminals alike ‘reform through labor. ' There Zhang, a ‘rightist' poet, meets and (alls in love with Huang, a beautiful peasant woman jailed for promiscuity. In the jargon of the time, they are a ‘calamity couple, ' and their relationship becomes the lens through which we see, and feel, the warping effects of the Cultural Revolution on ordinary people. Separated for years, the lovers reunite in another outpost of the gulag. But for the poet Zhang, years of imprisonment and forced labor have meant a loss of self: he is impotent, he cannot write. Words, like human relationships, have been turned upside down. They no longer have any purpose except to make up the empty ‘thought reports' by which prisoners ‘rectify' themselves. The struggle of the novel is to regain possession of the self, and to reclaim the endeavor that has defined it. Written in an ironical prose, which combines a spare, humorous toughness, surrealism, and a lyrical feeling for the Chinese landscape, this brilliant, moving account of lives at the mercy of politics introduces a literary voice of world importance. The first novel of China's gulag to appear in the West, it was published in China late in 1985 to great popular enthusiam, and much controversy because of its unaccustomed frankness about sex. Since then the book and its author, Zhang Xianliang, have figured prominently in debates about the extent of liberalization in China. inventory #27577.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp. 285. xvii, 285 pp. Translated by Martha Avery. Cover has fading on the bottom 1/8" of the front cover. Jacket has light creasing at top edge. A novel of the Great Cultural Revolution.
