Howard Goldblatt

Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused: Fiction from Today's China Howard Goldblatt

Jacket Description/Back: This book is a showcase for twenty writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism; shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all coexist in an anthology that spans nearly a decade, ten years that have witnessed a dizzying array of societal and political changes. Review Citations:

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2002 pg. 53 (EAN 9780802134493, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2007 pg. 842 (EAN 9780802134493, Paperback)

Wilson Senior High Core Col 01/01/2011 pg. 1104 (EAN 9780802134493, Paperback)

Library Journal 03/01/1995 pg. 90 (EAN 9780802115737, Hardcover)

Library Journal 06/15/1995 pg. 97 (EAN 9780802115737, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 05/29/1995 pg. 68 (EAN 9780802115737, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 05/15/1995 pg. 657 (EAN 9780802115737, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Goldblatt, Howard HOWARD GOLDBLATT and SYLVIA LI-CHUN LIN are translators of Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man, which was named the 1999 Translation of the Year by the American Literary Translators Association. They live in South Bend, Indiana.