The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan : : More Stories of China / / Wen Zhu.
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. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in...
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