Under the red flag / stories by Ha Jin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jin, Ha, 1956-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Social life and customs--Fiction.

China.

Manners and customs.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

207 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Zoland Books, 1999.

Summary:

Under the Red Flag is Ha Jin's second collection of stories. Set in the northern Chinese provincial town of Dismount Fort, these twelve stories offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives of peasants, soldiers, workers, and party officials during the Great Cultural Revolution. This was a time of social upheaval reaching into every home, when the Red Guard could drag a woman accused of prostitution through the streets; when a man trying to honor his mother's dying wish runs up against party orthodoxy. Ha Jin has been compared to the late Isaac Babel for his spare evocation of ordinary lives caught up in the flux of vast social movements. He is a writer of stark power, simple beauty, and poignant irony, whose themes of personal honor in the face of political rectitude are unmatched in American literature today. --Publisher.

Contents:

In broad daylight

Man to be

Sovereignty

Winds and clouds over a funeral

The richest man

New arrival

Emperor

Fortune

Taking a husband

Again, the spring breeze blew

Resurrection

A decade.

Notes:

"Originally published by the University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia"--T.p. verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Jin, Ha, 1956- Under the red flag.

ISBN:

1581950063

9781581950069

OCLC:

40423891

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