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...
Eight stories displaying anger, melancholy, and satire reflect the dissident literature of contemporary China and the reality of life during and after the Cultural Revolution.
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...