The Gourmet and other stories of modern China

by Wenfu Lu and Lu Wenfu

Book Overview

Lu Wenfu, like the wonton-sellers, rickshaw pullers, and petty bureaucrats in these stories, was buffeted by four decades of changes in Chinese politics and society since the 1949 Revolution. Denounced as a writer and demoted in 1957, in 1965, and again in 1969 during the Cultural Revolution, he returned to writing in 1978 after two decades of enforced silence.

Still, his voice remains one of the most attractive and sympathetic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930523393
• ISBN13: 9780930523398
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Readers International
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"