The past and the punishments
By: Yu Hua ; translated from the Chinese by Andrew F. Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Andrew F.
Series: Fiction from modern China
Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Description: To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific cruelty, where expectations are subverted, where moral certainties are shattered, where gorgeously wrought surfaces beguile at the same time that acts of incredible brutality horrify.

This is the first collection short fiction by Yu Hua to appear in English. It takes us on a haunting and harrowing journey from classical China through the Cultural Revolution and into the new era of economic reform, exploding along the way our preconceived notions of what Chinese literature and culture are all about in the 1990s.
Notes: Translation from Chinese.