The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan More Stories of China |
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| Author:
| Zhu, Wen |
| Translator:
| Lovell, Julia |
| Series title: | Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-16091-9 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.00 |
Book Description:
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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. 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.
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. 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.