The Jiling Chronicles
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Köp båda 2 för 613 krLi carves out a dark novel set in the red light district of the small Jiling township... What unfolds is a melange of stories told from the perspective of various townspeople concerning the individuals, events, and aftermath of [a] single, fateful evening... Like works by Hong Ying, the narratives are brutally real and even sinister at times. Library Journal The novel explores the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief and karmic retribution. Indianapolis Star The Jiling Chronicles...will demostrate to the English-reading world why he has been critically indentified as a premier writer of Chinese fiction in our time. -- Timothy C. Wong World Literature Today The English publication of Li Yong-p'ing's intriguing and complex novel is certainly timely and most welcome. -- Lingchei Letty Chen MCLC List
Li Yung-p'ing is a Chinese Malaysian writer and one of Taiwan's best-known and most controversial novelists. His other works include Haidong Qing and Zhu Ling's Wanderings in the Wonderland.Howard Goldblatt is professor of Chinese literature at the University of Notre Dame. He is translator of The Taste of Apples (Columbia, 2001) and co-editor of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia, 1996). Sylvia Li-chun Lin is assistant professor of East Asian languages and literature at Notre Dame. Together they have translated Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man and Alai's Red Poppies.