Change
By: Mo Yan ; translated by Howard Goldblatt
Contributors: Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
Series: What was communism? -- 5
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780857421609; 9780857421616
Work titles: Bian
Description: "In Change, China's foremost novelist Mo Yan personalizes the social and political changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice versa).  Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of 'people's history', a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux.  By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, the author breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen."--
Notes: Translation from Chinese of: Bian.