Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas

by Xue Can and Can Xue

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Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy. At the forefront of China's new literary trends, these two novellas--"Yellow Mud Street" and "Old Floating Cloud"--explore Chinese reality through images of the absurd, sudden...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0810109743

ISBN13:9780810109742

Release Date:May 1992

Publisher:Northwestern University Press

Length:269 Pages

Weight:0.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Contemporary Education & Reference Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Literature & Fiction Political Reference

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