The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Cultural Revolution
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Memoirs
- Subjects
- Biographies & True Stories
- ISBN
- 9780253216908
- Book Title
- Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition
- Book Series
- Chinese Literature in Translation Ser.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Fiction, Literary Collections, History
- Topic
- Asian / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Asia / China
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 7.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253216907
ISBN-13
9780253216908
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30217235
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Asian / General, Short Stories (Single Author), Asia / China
Publication Year
2004
Features
Revised
Genre
Fiction, Literary Collections, History
Book Series
Chinese Literature in Translation Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
7.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2004-000689
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
..".in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity."
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
FIC
Table Of Content
The Execution of Mayor Yin "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg" Night Duty Residency Check Jen Hsiu-lan The Big Fish Keng Erh in Peking Nixon's Press Corps
Edition Description
Revised edition
Synopsis
Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of the period., Praise for the first edition: ". . . in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." --Time "The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales. . . is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition. . . Highly recommended." --Choice A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of the period., Praise for the first edition: "... in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." --Time "The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly recommended." --Choice A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of the period., Praise for the first edition: ". . . in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival?and sometimes the defeat?of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." ?Time "The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales. . . is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition. . . Highly recommended." ?Choice A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of the period.
LC Classification Number
PL2840.J6A6 2004
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