People or Monsters? : And Other Stories and Reportage from China after Mao / / Liu Binyan ; edited by Perry Link.

The title piece of this collection was an immediate sensation when it was published in China in September 1979. An outstanding example of "reportage," or fictionalized social analysis, "People or Monsters?" is the story of the corruption of an entire commune in a small county in...

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Place / Publishing House:Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1983.
Year of Publication:1983
Edition:1st Midland book ed.
Language:English
Chinese
Series:Chinese literature in translation
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource xvii, 140 pages.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Leo Ou-fan Lee
  • Listen carefully to the voice of the people / translated by Kyna Rubin and Perry Link
  • People or monsters? / translated by James V. Feinerman, with Perry Link
  • Warning / translated by Madelyn Ross, with Perry Link
  • The fifth man in the overcoat / translated by John S. Rohsenow, with Perry Link
  • Sound is better than silence / translated by Michael S. Duke.