Headbirths, or Germans
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: January 12, 1983
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780449200575
First sentence: Pedestrians among bicycle riders repeating one another ad infinitum in dress and bearing, immersed in a jungle of bicycle riders in Shanghai, the city where eleven out of nine hundred fifty million Chinese live, foreign bodies in the mass, we were suddenly hit by an idea, a speculative reversal: what if, from this day on, the world had to face up to existence of nine hundred fifty million Germans, whereas the Chinese nation numbered barely eighty million, that is, the present population of the two Germanys.