| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 140 pages) |
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Chinese literature in translation |
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Chinese literature in translation.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Leo Ou-fan Lee -- Listen carefully to the voice of the people / translated by Kyna Rubin and Perry Link -- People or monsters? / translated by James V. Feinerman, with Perry Link -- Warning / translated by Madelyn Ross, with Perry Link -- The fifth man in the overcoat / translated by John S. Rohsenow, with Perry Link -- Sound is better than silence / translated by Michael S. Duke |
| Summary |
The title piece of this collection was an immediate sensation when it was published in China in September 1979. An outstanding example of "reportage," or fictionalized social analysis, "People or Monsters?" is the story of the corruption of an entire commune in a small county in the remote Heilongjiang Province of northeastern China. . . . While many in China were scandalized by Liu's expose, many more saw in it a microcosm of Chinese society. Liu Binyan's lifelong dedication to truth and truth alone has rendered his career-which began in 1951 with a reporting position on the Party newspaper in Beijing-particularly vulnerable to the ever-shifting political tides of Communist China. Condemned to silence in 1958, during the Anti-Rightist campaign subsequent to the famous Hundred Flowers Movement, Liu was finally "rehabilitated" twenty-one years later, after the fall of the Gang of Four. The courageous honesty of "People or Monsters?" infuses all the pieces included in this collection |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Chinese prose literature -- Translations into English
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Chinese prose literature
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Soziale Situation
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Erzählung
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Anthologie
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Geschichte (1979-1981)
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Literary collections
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| Subject |
China
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China
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Chinesisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections
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Translations
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Link, Perry, 1944- editor
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| ISBN |
9780253051769 |
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0253051762 |
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