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Product Identifiers

PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-101681374706

ISBN-139781681374703

eBay Product ID (ePID)15038512613

Product Key Features

Original LanguageChinese

Book TitlePeach Blossom Paradise

Number of Pages392 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Family Life, Political, Historical

Publication Year2020

GenreFiction

AuthorGe Fei

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight13.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-010224

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"It is impossible to enter the deeper aspects of contemporary Chinese literature without also entering the world of Ge Fei." --Enrique Vila-Matas

Dewey Decimal895.13/52

SynopsisAn enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China's greatest living novelists. In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it was time to transform his sclerotic empire into a prosperous modern state. The Hundred Days' Reform that followed was a moment of unprecedented change and extraordinary hope--brought to an abrupt end by a bloody military coup. Dashed expectations would contribute to the revolutionary turn that Chinese history would soon take, leading in time to the deaths of millions. Peach Blossom Paradise , set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at his estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative. This mysterious man has a great vision of reforging China as an egalitarian utopia, and he will stop at nothing to make it real. It is his own plans, however, which come to nothing, and his "little sister" Xiumi is left to take up arms against a Confucian world in which women are chattel. Her campaign for change and her struggle to seize control over her own body are continually threatened by the violent whims of men who claim to be building paradise.

LC Classification NumberPL2872.F364R4613