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Author Li, Rui, 1950-

Title Trees without wind : a novel / Li Rui ; translated by John Balcom
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 186 pages)
Series Weatherhead Books on Asia
Weatherhead books on Asia.
Contents TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE: Trees Without Wind: Anatomy of a Revolution; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Chapter 26; Chapter 27; Chapter 28; Chapter 29; Chapter 30; Chapter 31; Chapter 32; Chapter 33; Chapter 34; Chapter 35; Chapter 36; Chapter 37; Chapter 38; Chapter 40; Chapter 41; Chapter 42; Chapter 43; Chapter 44
Chapter 45Chapter 46; Chapter 47; Chapter 48; Chapter 49; Chapter 50; Chapter 51; Chapter 52; Chapter 53; Chapter 54; Chapter 55; Chapter 56; Chapter 57; Chapter 58; Chapter 59; Chapter 60; Chapter 61; Chapter 62; Chapter 63
Summary Born in Beijing in 1950, the experimental writer Li Rui came of age in the thick of the Cultural Revolution. His experiences shaped not only his perception of China's unraveling but also his novelistic style. Combining the stylistic innovations of Modernist literature, particularly a Faulknerian play with dialogue and form, and content and language drawn from rural China, Li Rui's writing captures the harsh reality of a world turned upside down by ideological conflict. Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966?1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Sh
Notes In English
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Subject Abnormalities, Human -- Fiction
Electronic books.
e-books.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
FICTION -- Literary.
Electronic books
Abnormalities, Human
SUBJECT China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction
Subject China
Genre/Form Fiction
History
Novels.
Romans.
Form Electronic book
Author Balcom, John
ISBN 9780231531047
0231531044