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A love story set in a Chinese labor camp during the Cultural Revolution follows Zhang, a rightist poet made impotent, and Huang, a woman jailed for promiscuity, and their passionate, ill-fated love affair
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Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the postion of intellectuals. A year later he is ready to abandon his wife and escape from the camp. Cameo appearances by philosophic and literary figuresMarx and Meng-tz, Othello and Song Jiandiscussing China and sex allow the incorporation of non-novelistic elements while indulging in gallows humor. The references to Western culture and the translator's historical notes should make this complex and fascinating book easily accessible. Ethan Bumas, Fudan Univ., Shanghai
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Half of Man Is Woman
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Half of Man Is Woman
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 000-606: Hardcover with dust jacket. A beautiful, clean, tight copy. Dj has a tiny bit of edge wear. Clear coat has separated in a few very small places. Deckle Edge. No marks, creases or defects on pages. Published 1988 by W.W. Norton and Co. Seller Inventory # 43522
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1988. August 1988. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393025861. Translated from the Chinese by Martha Avery. 285 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Lizzy Rockwell/Kenneth Alcorn. keywords: Asia China Literature Transalted World Literature. DESCRIPTION - As the Cultural Revolution rages, a gulag of labor camps in China's remote, harshly beautiful countryside teaches 'capitalist roaders' and criminals alike 'reform through labor.' There Zhang, a 'rightist' poet, meets and (alls in love with Huang, a beautiful peasant woman jailed for promiscuity. In the jargon of the time, they are a 'calamity couple,' and their relationship becomes the lens through which we see, and feel, the warping effects of the Cultural Revolution on ordinary people. Separated for years, the lovers reunite in another outpost of the gulag. But for the poet Zhang, years of imprisonment and forced labor have meant a loss of self: he is impotent, he cannot write. Words, like human relationships, have been turned upside down. They no longer have any purpose except to make up the empty 'thought reports' by which prisoners 'rectify' themselves. The struggle of the novel is to regain possession of the self, and to reclaim the endeavor that has defined it. Written in an ironical prose, which combines a spare, humorous toughness, surrealism, and a lyrical feeling for the Chinese landscape, this brilliant, moving account of lives at the mercy of politics introduces a literary voice of world importance. The first novel of China's gulag to appear in the West, it was published in China late in 1985 to great popular enthusiam, and much controversy because of its unaccustomed frankness about sex. Since then the book and its author, Zhang Xianliang, have figured prominently in debates about the extent of liberalization in China. inventory #27577. Seller Inventory # z27577
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Half of Man is Woman
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. xvii, 285 pp. Translated by Martha Avery. Cover has fading on the bottom 1/8" of the front cover. Jacket has light creasing at top edge. A novel of the Great Cultural Revolution. Seller Inventory # 000723
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Half of Man is Woman
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Hardcover. First American Edition; First Printing. First Edition USA (1988) , so stated. First Printing indicated by a complete numerical sequence. Very Good+ to Near Fine in a Fine DJ: The Book shows only a tiny spot of soil at the top edge of the text block and a similar spot next to the black quarter cloth at the front panel; the expected light tanning to the text pages, due to aging; the binding leans ever so slightly, but remains secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, tightly bound, showing minor, unobtrusive cosmetic imperfections. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. Not far from 'As New'. The DJ is flawless; the price ($17.95) is unclipped; mylar-protected. Virtually 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo (8.5 x 5.85 x 1.2 inches) . Translated by Martha Avery. Language: English. Weight: 20.5 ounces. Black quarter cloth on crimson boards with gold titles at the backstrip. Deckle fore-edge. Hardcover with DJ. Zhang Xianliang (1936 2014) was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and poet. Zhang began publishing poetry at the age of 13. During the Anti-Rightist Movement, in 1957, his poetry was criticized as counter-revolutionary, and Zhang was sent to a labor camp in Ningxia at age 21. He was subsequently detained several more times, and ultimately spent 22 years in prisons and labor camps. During the events of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he expressed sympathy with the protesting students, resulting in the ban of his work "Getting Used to Dying" until 1993. He served as president of the Chinese Writers Association in Ningxia. His most well-known work, Half of Man is Woman is a semi-autobiographical reflections on his life experiences in prison and in witnessing the political upheaval of China during the Cultural Revolution. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvii, 285 pages. Seller Inventory # 58955
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover in very good + condition with very good + dust jacket. Name embossed and written on front end page. Seller Inventory # 147476