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Years of Red Dust : stories of Shanghai / Qiu Xiaolong

By: Xiaolong, Qiu.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York St. Martin's Press 2011Description: 227 pages : 22 cm.ISBN: 9780312628093; 9780312609252 :.Subject(s): Shanghai (China) -- Fiction
Contents:
Welcome to Red Dust Lane (1949) -- When I was conceived (1952) -- Return of POW I (1954) -- (Tofu) Worker Poet Bao I (1958) -- ǂt Chinese chess (1964) -- Shoes of the cultural revolution (1966) -- Cricket fighting (1969) -- When President Nixon first visited China (1972) -- Pill and picture (1976) -- A Jing Dynasty goat (1979) -- Uniform (1980) -- Big bowl and firecracker (1984) -- A confidence cap (1987) -- Housing assignment (1988) -- Iron rice bowl (1990) -- Return of POW II (1992) -- Old hunchback Fang (1995) -- (Tofu) Worker Poet Bao II (1996) -- Foot masseur (1998) -- Father and son (2000) -- Confucius and crab (2001) -- Eating and drinking salesman (2003) -- Lottery (2005).
Summary: Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. These stories trace the changes in modern China over fifty years - from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late ninties - all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism of the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square - through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.
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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 813.54 X4 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available Please give the book back to Urszula Kassel 34284003135035

Welcome to Red Dust Lane (1949) -- When I was conceived (1952) -- Return of POW I (1954) -- (Tofu) Worker Poet Bao I (1958) -- ǂt Chinese chess (1964) -- Shoes of the cultural revolution (1966) -- Cricket fighting (1969) -- When President Nixon first visited China (1972) -- Pill and picture (1976) -- A Jing Dynasty goat (1979) -- Uniform (1980) -- Big bowl and firecracker (1984) -- A confidence cap (1987) -- Housing assignment (1988) -- Iron rice bowl (1990) -- Return of POW II (1992) -- Old hunchback Fang (1995) -- (Tofu) Worker Poet Bao II (1996) -- Foot masseur (1998) -- Father and son (2000) -- Confucius and crab (2001) -- Eating and drinking salesman (2003) -- Lottery (2005).

Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. These stories trace the changes in modern China over fifty years - from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late ninties - all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism of the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square - through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.

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