Half of Man Is Woman - Softcover

Xianliang, Zhang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345364546 ISBN 13: 9780345364548

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1991

Synopsis

A love story set in a Chinese labor camp during the Cultural Revolution follows Zhang, a rightist poet made impotent, and Huang, a woman jailed for promiscuity, and their passionate, ill-fated love affair

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From Library Journal:

Poet Zhang Yonglin is sentenced to a labor camp he ironically describes as a haven amidst the hysteria of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. After he marries a woman he had seen eight years earlier, the story becomes, on one level, an analogy between his temporary sexual impotence and the postion of intellectuals. A year later he is ready to abandon his wife and escape from the camp. Cameo appearances by philosophic and literary figuresMarx and Meng-tz, Othello and Song Jiandiscussing China and sex allow the incorporation of non-novelistic elements while indulging in gallows humor. The references to Western culture and the translator's historical notes should make this complex and fascinating book easily accessible. Ethan Bumas, Fudan Univ., Shanghai
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0345364546
• ISBN 13: 9780345364548
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback