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024 7 _a10.7312/zhu-16090
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780231535076
035 _a(DE-B1597)459463
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050 0 0 _aPL2852.W424
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aZhu, Wen
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan :
_bMore Stories of China /
_cWen Zhu.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (184 p.) :
_b‹B›6 illus.‹/B›
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aWeatherhead Books on Asia
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tA note about Chinese Names and Romanization --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tDa ma's way of talking --
_tThe Matchmaker --
_tThe Apprentice --
_tThe Football Fan --
_tXiao Liu --
_tMr. Hu, Are you Coming Out to Play Basket ball This Afternoon ? --
_tReeducation --
_tThe Wharf --
_tWeatherhead Books on Asia
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aThe Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan moves between anarchic campuses, maddening communist factories, and the victims of China's economic miracle to showcase the absurdity, injustice, and socialist Gothic of everyday Chinese life. In "The Football Fan," readers fall in with an intriguingly unreliable narrator who may or may not have killed his elderly neighbor for a few hundred yuan. The bemused antihero of "Reeducation" is appalled to discover that, ten years after graduating during the pro-democracy protests of 1989, his alma mater has summoned him back for a punitive bout of political reeducation with a troublesome ex-girlfriend. "Da Ma's Way of Talking" is a fast, funny recollection of China's picaresque late 1980s, told through the life and times of one of our student narrator's more controversial classmates; while "The Apprentice" plunges us into the comic vexations of life in a more-or-less planned economy, as an enthusiastic young graduate is over-exercised by his table-tennis-fanatic bosses, deprived of sleep by gambling-addicted colleagues, and stuffed with hard-boiled eggs by an overzealous landlady. Full of acute observations, political bite, and piercing insight into friendships and romance, these stories further establish Zhu Wen as a fearless commentator on human nature and contemporary China.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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700 1 _aLovell, Julia
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/zhu-16090
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231535076
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