Comrade Marcel
26th April 2006, 02:39
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Paperback
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press (1993)
ISBN: 7119014544
I've been reading this book and I am almost half way through. The book is a fictional story which takes you into a work/reform school for juvenille deliquints in China. The hero of the story is a young womyn in her late 20s named Qianqian (meaning bueatiful). She is the daughter of two party cadres, and despite the fact that her mother wanted to give her a revolutionary name, her father wanted to give her this name because of her beauty.
The book is a anti-gang-of-four propaganda. It's also strongly suggested against many of the acheivments of Mao, such as the cultural revolution. This is not to say the novel has no literal value. The story is very interesting and it is full of characters of various types. However, there is something lacking from making it an excellent novel - this could partially be from the fact that certain things are lost in the English translation, but it's just not full of enough flavour and vigor to keep me reading without wanting to put it down (and yes I've had books do that!).
The book is pro-Deng and was embraced by contemporary China. It's a great story to read for anyone who wants to understand the line of the current CCP along the thinking of Mao's "errors". It is important to note that Mao himself is never criticised, but rather other people. This is part of the strategy to try and get people to think that Deng was following in Mao's footsteps correctly.
If you live in a city with a Chinatown, it should be possible to find. Otherwise, it can be obtained from China Books in Australia (if you live in Melbourn you're a lucky duck if you like Chinese lit!).
http://www.chinabooks.com.au/generalcatalo...itcontemp_8.htm (http://www.chinabooks.com.au/generalcatalogue/litcontemp_8.htm)
From the back cover:
Chinese woman writer Ke Yan takes the reader inside a Chinese work\study school for the re-education of juvenile delinquents. The author vividly recreates life within the school, the atmosphere of confinement and release. The tough, tradition-bound teachers rely on discipline to reform their criminal charges, generating an attitude of mutual suspicion. Into this tense and confrontational arena comes a young female teacher with a new idea: a willingness to communicate with the teenagers and to help lead them towards a better future. This novel explores a part of China seldom touched by other writers - the minds of restless, sometimes disenchanted youth. Drawing upon her own experiences, the author evokes a fictional world that is very real, populated with characters facing a complex struggle to understand and adapt in modern society.
Paperback
Publisher: Foreign Languages Press (1993)
ISBN: 7119014544
I've been reading this book and I am almost half way through. The book is a fictional story which takes you into a work/reform school for juvenille deliquints in China. The hero of the story is a young womyn in her late 20s named Qianqian (meaning bueatiful). She is the daughter of two party cadres, and despite the fact that her mother wanted to give her a revolutionary name, her father wanted to give her this name because of her beauty.
The book is a anti-gang-of-four propaganda. It's also strongly suggested against many of the acheivments of Mao, such as the cultural revolution. This is not to say the novel has no literal value. The story is very interesting and it is full of characters of various types. However, there is something lacking from making it an excellent novel - this could partially be from the fact that certain things are lost in the English translation, but it's just not full of enough flavour and vigor to keep me reading without wanting to put it down (and yes I've had books do that!).
The book is pro-Deng and was embraced by contemporary China. It's a great story to read for anyone who wants to understand the line of the current CCP along the thinking of Mao's "errors". It is important to note that Mao himself is never criticised, but rather other people. This is part of the strategy to try and get people to think that Deng was following in Mao's footsteps correctly.
If you live in a city with a Chinatown, it should be possible to find. Otherwise, it can be obtained from China Books in Australia (if you live in Melbourn you're a lucky duck if you like Chinese lit!).
http://www.chinabooks.com.au/generalcatalo...itcontemp_8.htm (http://www.chinabooks.com.au/generalcatalogue/litcontemp_8.htm)
From the back cover:
Chinese woman writer Ke Yan takes the reader inside a Chinese work\study school for the re-education of juvenile delinquents. The author vividly recreates life within the school, the atmosphere of confinement and release. The tough, tradition-bound teachers rely on discipline to reform their criminal charges, generating an attitude of mutual suspicion. Into this tense and confrontational arena comes a young female teacher with a new idea: a willingness to communicate with the teenagers and to help lead them towards a better future. This novel explores a part of China seldom touched by other writers - the minds of restless, sometimes disenchanted youth. Drawing upon her own experiences, the author evokes a fictional world that is very real, populated with characters facing a complex struggle to understand and adapt in modern society.