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The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China
Wen Zhu
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Description for The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China
Hardback. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Series
Weatherhead Books on Asia
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160902
SKU
V9780231160902
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About Wen Zhu
Zhu Wen is also the author of I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China. In Chinese, he has published several additional short story and poetry collections and one novel and has directed four films, including Seafood (2001), which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, and South of the Clouds (2004), which won the NETPAC Prize ... Read more
Reviews for The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China
Zhu's quirky rogue's gallery is both entertaining and revealing, as murderers ('The Football Fan') and apostates (all the rest) illuminate the volatile period that preceded contemporary China's espousal of capitalist enterprise-if not democratic reform. Publishers Weekly Zhu Wen's plotting is brilliant, and his writing is cinematic and evocative. These eight stories are both funny and complex, and offer a true ... Read more