Foreign Devil (First Edition)

Wang Ping

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ISBN 10: 1566890489 ISBN 13: 9781566890489

Published by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, 1996

Language: English

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Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. First edition, first printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with gilt spine lettering. Very Fine in a very fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($21.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean unread copy. Octavo, 288 pages. Beige endpapers. Ping's debut. Born in Shanghai, Wang is a poet, fiction writer, and translator whose later works include "The Last Communist Virgin and Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China.".

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Title: Foreign Devil (First Edition)
Publisher: Coffee House Press, Minneapolis
Publication Date: 1996
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1566890489
ISBN 13: 9781566890489
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New

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Foreign Devil is a Red Azalea with more guts, grit, heart, and soul.

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Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years spent farming in a mountain village commune, she attended Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the United States, earning her PhD from New York University. She is the acclaimed author of the short story collection American Visa, the novel Foreign Devil, two poetry collections: Of Flesh & Spirit and The Magic Whip, and the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China.

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