Love in the New Millennium / Can Can Xue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Can Xue, Can, author.

Contributor:

Myles, Eileen.

Wasmoen, Annelise Finegan.

Series:

The Margellos World Republic of Letters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Romance fiction.

Love stories.

Dystopian fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist working in China today In this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flowerbeds and false reports fly. Conspiracies abound in a community that normalizes paranoia and suspicion. Some try to flee-whether to a mysterious gambling bordello or to ancestral homes that can only be reached underground through muddy caves, sewers, and tunnels. Others seek out the refuge of Nest County, where traditional Chinese herbal medicines can reshape or psychologically transport the self. Each life is circumscribed by buried secrets and transcendent delusions. Can Xue's masterful love stories for the new millennium trace love's many guises-satirical, tragic, transient, lasting, nebulous, and fulfilling-against a kaleidoscopic backdrop drawn from East and West of commerce and industry, fraud and exploitation, sex and romance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword: Inside Can Xue / Myles, Eileen

Acknowledgments

1. Cuilan and Wei Bo

2. Wei Bo and A Si's Past Affair

3. Long Sixiang's Inner Quest

4. Wei Bo's Wife Xiao Yuan

5. The Antiques Appraiser

6. The Doctor's Worldview

7. Wei Bo in Prison

8. Officer Xiao He's One-Sided Love

9. Sentimental Education

10. In Nest County

11. Brave A Si

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

0-300-24048-1

OCLC:

1059576912