Old floating cloud
Subtitle: two novellas
By: Can Xue ; translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang ; with a foreword by Charlotte Innes.
Contributors: Tsʻan-hsüeh, 1953-
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Tsʻan-hsüeh, 1953- -- Translations into English.
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.
Notes: Translated from Chinese.