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The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan

- More Stories of China
Af: Wen Zhu Engelsk Hardback

The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan

- More Stories of China
Af: Wen Zhu Engelsk Hardback
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The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intriguingly unreliable narrator who may or may not have killed his elderly neighbor for a few hundred yuan. The bemused antihero of "Reeducation" is appalled to discover that, ten years after graduating during the pro-democracy protests of 1989, his alma mater has summoned him back for a punitive bout of political reeducation with a troublesome ex-girlfriend. "Da Ma's Way of Talking" is a fast, funny recollection of China's picaresque late 1980s, told through the life and times of one of our student narrator's more controversial classmates; while "The Apprentice" plunges us into the comic vexations of life in a more-or-less planned economy, as an enthusiastic young graduate is over-exercised by his table-tennis-fanatic bosses, deprived of sleep by gambling-addicted colleagues, and stuffed with hard-boiled eggs by an overzealous landlady. Full of acute observations, political bite, and piercing insight into friendships and romance, these stories further establish Zhu Wen as a fearless commentator on human nature and contemporary China.
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The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intriguingly unreliable narrator who may or may not have killed his elderly neighbor for a few hundred yuan. The bemused antihero of "Reeducation" is appalled to discover that, ten years after graduating during the pro-democracy protests of 1989, his alma mater has summoned him back for a punitive bout of political reeducation with a troublesome ex-girlfriend. "Da Ma's Way of Talking" is a fast, funny recollection of China's picaresque late 1980s, told through the life and times of one of our student narrator's more controversial classmates; while "The Apprentice" plunges us into the comic vexations of life in a more-or-less planned economy, as an enthusiastic young graduate is over-exercised by his table-tennis-fanatic bosses, deprived of sleep by gambling-addicted colleagues, and stuffed with hard-boiled eggs by an overzealous landlady. Full of acute observations, political bite, and piercing insight into friendships and romance, these stories further establish Zhu Wen as a fearless commentator on human nature and contemporary China.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 184
ISBN-13: 9780231160902
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0231160909
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 18 jun 2013
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 155mm
Højde: 218mm
Forlag: Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato: 18 jun 2013
Forfatter(e): Wen Zhu
Forfatter(e) Wen Zhu

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9780231160902

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 184

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 155mm

Højde 218mm

Udg. Dato 18 jun 2013

Oplagsdato 18 jun 2013

Forlag Columbia University Press