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The Remote Country of Women: A Novel (Fiction from Modern China, 11)

by Hua Bai; Qingyun Wu; Thomas O. Beebee
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
Binding
Paperback
Pages
386

Two worlds prepare to collide: Sunamei from her matriarchal mountain village, and Lian Rui carrying the wounds of the Cultural Revolution. Their alternating stories move toward each other like slow dancers in separate rooms. The novel examines how different societies construct gender and power, tradition and modernity. The binding holds together two narratives that illuminate each other through contrast. This finds readers interested in how individual stories can illuminate vast cultural transformations.

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