num_pages: 269
description: Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy. At the forefront of China's new literary trends, these two novellas--"Yellow Mud Street" and "Old Floating Cloud"--explore Chinese reality through images of the absurd, sudden and illogical juxtapositions, and the limitless transformations induced by a unique imagination.
language: English
title: Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas
titlecomplete: Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas
genres: Literature, Chinese Literature, Short Stories, China
ratings_count: 60
publisher: Northwestern University Press