Howard Goldblatt
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Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet
Alai, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Ambitious, beautifully told, filled with intriguing characters, panoramic settings, and high drama, Red Poppies opens a window on a unique region of pre-occupation Tibet, dispelling many of the popular myths about a uniformly pacifistic society peopled by devout worshipers. Set in the eastern part of the country, whose autocratic chieftains received their power to govern from Chinese emperors in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, this novel is about a feudal society in full, hot-house bloom. Lavish, sensual lifestyles, passionate romance, and bloody…
Virgin Widows: Fiction from Modern China
Gu Hua, Howard Goldblatt
Things just keep getting better and better.…Well, don’t they? If you are a woman and you live in China, to answer this question you will need not only to look around you but to look back, to see not just how things are now but how they once were. China has traveled a long and torturous road since the collapse of the final imperial dynasty and the establishment of a modern republic early in this century; but have the nature of women’s lives and their opportunities for just and equal treatment improved?
This poignant and disquieting novel unfolds in alternating chapters the stories of two women whose lives, despite being separated by nearly a century, reveal a disturbing similarity. First published in China in 1985, it appears now in English for the first time.
