Chairman Mao would not be amused
Subtitle: fiction from today's China
By: edited by Howard Goldblatt.
Contributors: Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
Description: Twenty stories by Chinese writers as they break free of the grip of uniformity which held them for over four decades. The stories include Can Xue's The Summons, on the last days of a murderer, Su Tong's The Brothers Shu, on male rivalry for a woman, and A String of Choices, which is a satirical look at Chinese health care by Wang Meng, a deposed minister of culture.