Under the Red Flag
Subtitle: Stories
By: by Ha Jin.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Athens, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
Subjects: City and town life -- Fiction; China -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: The twelve stories in Under the Red Flag take place during China's Cultural Revolution. Ha Jin, who was raised in China and emigrated to the United States after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, writes about loss and moral deterioration with the keen sense of a survivor.

His stories examine life in the bleak rural town of Dismount Fort, where the men and women are full of passion and certainty but blinded by their limited visions as they grapple with honor and shame, manhood and death, infidelity and repression.

In Under the Red Flag, privacy is nonexistent and paranoia rules as neighbor turns against neighbor, husband turns against wife, state turns against individual, history turns against humanity. These stories display the earnestness and grandeur of human folly and, in a larger sense, form a moral history of a time and a place.
Table of contents: title: In broad daylight; title: Man to be; title: Sovereignty; title: Winds and clouds over a funeral; title: The richest man; title: New arrival; title: Emperor; title: Fortune; title: Taking a husband; title: Again, the spring breeze blew; title: Resurrection; title: A decade.