Sandalwood death = (Tanxiang xing) : a novel / Mo Yan ; translated by Howard Goldblatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mo, Yan, 1955-

Contributor:

Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-

Goldblatt, Howard, 1939- translator.

Series:

Chinese literature today book series

Chinese literature today book series ; v. 2

Standardized Title:

Tan xiang xing. English

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

History.

China--History--Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901--Fiction.

China.

China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912--Fiction.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Political fiction.

Love stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 409 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Tanxiang xing

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

Summary:

Sun Meiniang interacts with the three men in her life during the Boxer Rebellion, including Sun Bing, her father and a leader of the rebellion, who is destined to come to a cruel end.

Contents:

Book one: head of the phoenix

Chapter one: Meiniang's lewd talk

Chapter two: Zhao Jia's ravings

Chapter three: Xiaojia's foolish talk

Chapter four: Qian Ding's bitter words

Book two: Belly of the pig

Chapter five: battle of the beards

Chapter six: competing feet

Chapter seven: elegy

Chapter eight: divine alter

Chapter nine: masterpiece

Chapter ten: a promise kept

Chapter eleven: golden pistols

Chapter twelve: crevice

Chapter thirteen: a city destroyed

Chapter fourteen: Zhao Jia's soliloquy

Chapter fifteen: Meiniang's grievance

Chapter sixteen: Sun Bing's opera talk

Chapter seventeen: Xiaojia sings in full voice

Chapter eighteen: the magistrate's magnum opus.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Anonymous gift.

ISBN:

9780806143392

0806143398

OCLC:

805390913