People or monsters?
Subtitle: and other stories and reportage from China after Mao
By: Liu Binyan ; edited by Perry Link.
Contributors: Link, E. Perry  1944-
Edition: 1st Midland book ed.
Series: Chinese literature in translation
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Indiana Univ Pr
Published: Mar 21, 1983
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 140
Description: "The title piece of this collection was an immediate sensation when it was published in China in September 1979. an outstanding example of 'reportage', or fictionalized social analysis, 'People or Monsters?' is a story of the corruption of an entire commune in a small county of the remote Heilongjiang Province of northeastern China. There female candre by the name of Wang Shouxin gained control of the commune and ran it for her personal benefit. While many in China were scandalized by Liu's expose, many more saw in it a microcosm of Chinese society."--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Leo Ou-fan Lee; title: Listen carefully to the voice of the people / translated by Kyna Rubin and Perry Link; title: People or monsters? / translated by James V. Feinerman, with Perry Link; title: Warning / translated by Madelyn Ross, with Perry Link; title: The fifth man in the overcoat / translated by John S. Rohsenow, with Perry Link; title: Sound is better than silence / translated by Michael S. Duke.