Panic and Deaf : : Two Modern Satires / / Liang Xiaosheng; ed. by James O. Belcher.
Educated Youth. The Lost Generation. They served Maos Cultural Revolution as Red Guards in the late 1960s, only to be sacrificed to that same revolution a decade later when they were rusticated to desolate communes and the wastelands of northern China. When they were allowed to return to the cities...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
Year of Publication: | 2001 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Panic -- Deaf -- Translator's Postscript |
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Summary: | Educated Youth. The Lost Generation. They served Maos Cultural Revolution as Red Guards in the late 1960s, only to be sacrificed to that same revolution a decade later when they were rusticated to desolate communes and the wastelands of northern China. When they were allowed to return to the cities, they found themselves dislocated once again, this time by the social and economic upheavals of the post-Mao era. A former Red Guard and one of Chinas most accomplished satirists, Liang Xiaosheng follows his compatriots as they make their way through the morass of petty corruption, bureaucratic back-biting, and opportunism that is the new New China. In a tone deceptively light and humorous, Liang expresses the financial and sexual frustration, pathetic mediocrity, and impotent resentment of aging educated youth trapped in a public sector rendered increasingly superfluous by the brash econonic dynamism of Chinas new entrepreneurial class. Mordant and absurdist touches abound in Panic, a hilarious, often heartrending comedy of manners from Chinas Roaring Nineties. Liang depicts modern, dysfunctional man as being hopelessly badgered by hypercapitalist performance ratings while Marx and Lenin look on. Deaf, likewise, is high comedy, spinning multiple allegories of truth, faith, and the human condition. Fluently and gracefully translated, these two stories capture the spiritual chaos of todays China, a place as far removed from the exotic Qing Dynasty court as it is from the political and social turmoil of the Cultural Revolution. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780824863852 9783110649772 9783110564143 9783110663259 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780824863852 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Liang Xiaosheng; ed. by James O. Belcher. |