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Under the Red Flag: Stories By Ha Jin (1997, Hardcover), 1st Ed. w/ Dust Jacket
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Signed By
- Not Signed
- Signed
- No
- Custom Bundle
- No
- Ex Libris
- Yes
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- Yes
- California Prop 65 Warning
- N/A
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Short Stories
- Literary Movement
- N/A
- Illustrator
- N/A
- Era
- 1990s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Ex-Library
- Personalization Instructions
- N/A
- ISBN
- 9780820319391
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820319392
ISBN-13
9780820319391
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1106695
Product Key Features
Book Title
Under the Red Flag : Stories
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Flannery O'connor Award for Short Fiction Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
0.9 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-012235
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Ha Jin's Dismount Fort teems with vivid life and people who grow ever less strange as their struggles unfold. An exotic subject matter helps, but narrative talent proves victorious."-Time Magazine, "Splendidly fluid and clear: Ha Jin has managed to make an utterly alien world seem as familiar as an old friend."-Kirkus Reviews, "Ha Jin is a master satirist, not so much of Chinese politics as of the human psyche when it's being twisted and pummeled by some higher authority."-Chicago Tribune, "[Ha Jin] infuses his tales with unforgettable characters who are grappling with questions of honor and shame, passion vs. respectability."-- San Jose Mercury News, "Mr. Jin's haunting portraits of life in China, particularly during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, are shattering conventional expectations of what it is to be a 'Chinese writer,' and at the same time attracting torrents of praise."-- Asian Wall Street Journal, "Ha Jin's Dismount Fort teems with vivid life and people who grow ever less strange as their struggles unfold. An exotic subject matter helps, but narrative talent proves victorious."- Time Magazine, "Mr. Jin's haunting portraits of life in China, particularly during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, are shattering conventional expectations of what it is to be a 'Chinese writer,' and at the same time attracting torrents of praise."- Asian Wall Street Journal, The spirit of a rural town during China's Cultural Revolution is captured in this strong collection from poet and People's Army veteran Jin (Oceans of Words), one of China's best-known post-Tiananmen imigris . . . Through a series of troubling vignettes . . . the reader gains a unique picture of a people struggling in a world in which matchmakers and fortune tellers exist with party officials and Red Guards., Mr. Jin's haunting portraits of life in China, particularly during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, are shattering conventional expectations of what it is to be a 'Chinese writer,' and at the same time attracting torrents of praise., "Ha Jin is a master satirist, not so much of Chinese politics as of the human psyche when it's being twisted and pummeled by some higher authority."-- Chicago Tribune, [Ha Jin] infuses his tales with unforgettable characters who are grappling with questions of honor and shame, passion vs. respectability., "[Ha Jin] infuses his tales with unforgettable characters who are grappling with questions of honor and shame, passion vs. respectability."- San Jose Mercury News, "The spirit of a rural town during China's Cultural Revolution is captured in this strong collection from poet and People's Army veteran Jin (Oceans of Words), one of China's best-known post-Tiananmen imigris . . . Through a series of troubling vignettes . . . the reader gains a unique picture of a people struggling in a world in which matchmakers and fortune tellers exist with party officials and Red Guards." - Publishers Weekly, Ha Jin is a master satirist, not so much of Chinese politics as of the human psyche when it's being twisted and pummeled by some higher authority., "Splendidly fluid and clear: Ha Jin has managed to make an utterly alien world seem as familiar as an old friend."- Kirkus Reviews, Splendidly fluid and clear: Ha Jin has managed to make an utterly alien world seem as familiar as an old friend., "Ha Jin's Dismount Fort teems with vivid life and people who grow ever less strange as their struggles unfold. An exotic subject matter helps, but narrative talent proves victorious."-- Time Magazine, "Splendidly fluid and clear: Ha Jin has managed to make an utterly alien world seem as familiar as an old friend."-- Kirkus Reviews, "Ha Jin is a master satirist, not so much of Chinese politics as of the human psyche when it's being twisted and pummeled by some higher authority."- Chicago Tribune, "[Ha Jin] infuses his tales with unforgettable characters who are grappling with questions of honor and shame, passion vs. respectability."-San Jose Mercury News, Ha Jin's Dismount Fort teems with vivid life and people who grow ever less strange as their struggles unfold. An exotic subject matter helps, but narrative talent proves victorious., "Mr. Jin's haunting portraits of life in China, particularly during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, are shattering conventional expectations of what it is to be a 'Chinese writer,' and at the same time attracting torrents of praise."-Asian Wall Street Journal
Series Volume Number
79
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
The twelve stories in Under the Red Flag take place during China's Cultural Revolution. Ha Jin, who was raised in China and emigrated to the United States after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, writes about loss and moral deterioration with the keen sense of a survivor. His stories examine life in the bleak rural town of Dismount Fort, where the men and women are full of passion and certainty but blinded by their limited vision as they grapple with honor and shame, manhood and death, infidelity and repression. In "A Man-to-Be," a militiaman engaged to be married participates in a gang rape, but finds himself impotent when he looks into the eyes of the victim. His fiancee's family breaks off the engagement, not because of the rape, but because they doubt his virility. In "Winds and Clouds over a Funeral," a Communist leader disobeys his mother's last wish for burial to keep his good standing in the party, but his enemies bring him down for being a bad son. "In Broad Daylight" is the story of the public humiliation of a woman accused of being a whore. Her dignified defiance is gradually stripped away as she is dragged through the streets, cursed and spat upon by strangers and family alike. In Under the Red Flag , privacy is nonexistent and paranoia rules as neighbor turns against neighbor, husband turns against wife, state turns against individual, history turns against humanity. These stories dis, Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, "Under the Red Flag" features twelve stories which take place during China's Cultural Revolution--stories which display the earnestness and grandeur of human folly and, in a larger sense, form a moral history of a time and a place., In Under the Red Flag , privacy is nonexistent and paranoia rules as neighbor turns against neighbor, husband turns against wife, state turns against individual, history turns against humanity. These stories display the earnestness and grandeur of human folly, and in a larger sense, form a moral history of a time and a place.
LC Classification Number
PS3560.I6U53 1997
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