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Trees Without Wind eBook

A Novel

by Rui Li
language: english
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, December of 2012 ‧
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Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating matters is a woman named Nuanyu, who, like Zhang Weiguo and Director Liu, is an outsider untouched by the village''s disease. "Wedded" to all of the male villagers, Nuanyu lives a polyandrous lifestyle based on necessity and at odds with the puritanical idealism of the Cultural Revolution.

The deformed villagers, representing the manipulated masses of China, become pawns in the Party representatives'' factional infighting. Director Liu and Zhang Weiguo''s explosive tug-of-war is part of a larger battle among politics, self-interest, and passion gripping a world undone by ideological extremism. A collectively told narrative powered by distinctive subjectivities, Trees Without Wind is a milestone in the fictional treatment of a horrific event.

Trees Without Wind

A Novel

by Rui Li

Property Description
ISBN: 9780231531047
Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: December of 2012
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Weatherhead Books On Asia
Categories: eBooks in English > Fiction > Essays
eBooks in English > Fiction > Fiction
eBooks in English > Fiction > History of Literature
eBooks in English > Dictionaries and Encyclopedias > Other Languages
EAN: 9780231531047
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