The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan : more stories of China

Zhu, Wen 1967- (author.). Lovell, Julia, 1975- (translator.).

Summary: The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, infuriating communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. This new collection of short fiction establishes Zhu Wen as that rare creature among Chinese writers today: an author with both a fearless grasp of the chaotic violence of capitalist-Communist China and a sense of humor. In?The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intriguingly unreliable narrator who may or may not have killed his elde.

Record details

ISBN: 0231535074
ISBN: 9780231535076
Physical Description: 1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Da Ma's Way of Talking -- The Matchmaker -- The Apprentice -- The Football Fan -- Xiao Liu -- Mr. Hu, Are You Coming Out to Play Basketball This Afternoon? -- Reeducation -- The Wharf.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	Translated from the Chinese.