Title: Old floating cloud
First published: 1991
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.
Subjects: Translations into English, Fiction, general, Fiction
People: Tsʻan-hsüeh (1953-)
LC classification: PL2912.A5174 T7513 1991