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 and illogical juxtapositions, and the limitless transformations induced by a unique imagination.
| ISBN: | 9780810109889 |
| Publication date: | 30th May 1992 |
| Author: | Xue Can |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 269 pages |
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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.
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Old Floating Cloud was written by Xue Can and published by Northwestern University Press
Old Floating Cloud has 269 pages