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ISBN: 9629969041 9789629969042 9780983297017 0983297010 Year: 2012 Publisher: Brookline, Mass. Hong Kong
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In a 1989 interview, Han Dong declared that he wrote poetry for nobody, not even himself. He likens the poet to a roofer: "I write poetry for the constitution of poetry, just as a roofer gives no thought to who lives in the house whose roof he is covering--he builds to meet the criteria of what a house is. Poetry is not subordinate to purposes beyond itself: its highest purpose is to be without purpose."
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ISBN: 9781611097429 1611097428 Year: 2017 Publisher: Seattle AmazonCrossing
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Poverty and injustice test one man's relentless optimism. From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its humor and pathos, as seen through the eyes of Happy Liu, a charming and clever rural laborer who leaves his home for the gritty, harsh streets of Xi'an in search of a better life. After a disastrous end to a relationship, Hawa "Happy" Liu embarks on a quest to find the recipient of his donated kidney and a life that lives up to his self-given moniker. Traveling from his rural home in Freshwind to the city of Xi'an, Happy brings only an eternally positive attitude, his devoted best friend WuFu, and a pair of high-heeled women's shoes he hopes to fill with the love of his life. In Xi'an, Happy and Wufu find jobs as trash pickers sorting through the city's filth, but Happy refuses to be deterred by inauspicious beginnings. In his eyes, dusty birds become phoenixes, the streets become rivers, and life is what you make of it. When he meets the beautiful Yichun, he imagines she is the one to fill the shoes and his Cinderella-esque dream. But when the harsh city conditions and the crush of societal inequalities take the life of his friend and shake Happy to his soul, he'll need more than just his unrelenting optimism to hold on to the belief that something better is possible. -- back cover.
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ISBN: 9781910760451 1910760455 Year: 2019 Publisher: London ACA Publishing LTD
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"Despite her humble rural beginnings, Butterfly regards herself as a sophisticated young woman. So, when offered a lucrative job in the city, she jumps at the chance.But instead of being given work, she is trafficked and sold to Bright Black, a desperate man from a poor mountain village.Trapped in Bright's cave home with her new "husband", she plans her escape... not so easily done in this isolated and remote village where she is watched day and night. Will her tenacity and free spirit survive, or will she be broken?"--Publisher description.
Young women --- Human trafficking --- Social isolation --- Man-woman relationships --- Chinese fiction
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ISBN: 1101871504 Year: 2018 Publisher: : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group,
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Rao, Pingru, --- Mao, Meitang. --- China --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions
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ISBN: 9780824832629 9780824833404 Year: 2009 Publisher: Hawaii University of Hawaii press
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ISBN: 9781846555893 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Harvill Secker,
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ISBN: 0552772011 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Black swan
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ISBN: 9780099501480 Year: 2009 Publisher: London Vintage
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ISBN: 9780415610926 Year: 2014 Publisher: London Routledge
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Economic development --- Sustainable development --- Environmental aspects --- China. --- Economic policy
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