Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas

by Xue Can and Can Xue

Book Overview

Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy. At the forefront of China's new literary trends, these two novellas--"Yellow Mud Street" and "Old Floating Cloud"--explore Chinese reality through images of the absurd, sudden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810109883
• ISBN13: 9780810109889
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"