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Author:

Zou, Jingzhi, author.

Title:

Ninth building / Zou Jingzhi ; translated by Jeremy Tiang.

Edition:

First Open Letter edition.

Publisher:

Open Letter,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xi, 233 pages ; 22 cm

Subject:

Zou, Jingzhi--Translations into English.
Teenagers--Fiction.
Bildungsromans, Chinese.
Poetry.
Beijing (China)--Fiction.
Beijing (China)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.
China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Biographical fiction.
Poetry.

Other Authors:

Tiang, Jeremy, translator.

Other Titles:

880-01 Jiu dong. English

Notes:

880-02 "Originally published in Chinese as Jiu dong by Fa lü chu ban she"--Title page verso.

Contents:

Part one: Ninth building -- Part two: Grains of sand in the wind -- Afterword -- Poems.

Summary:

Ninth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi's experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the countryside. Zou poetically captures a side of the Cultural Revolution that is less talked about--the sheer tedium and waste of young life, as well as the gallows humor that accompanies such desperate situations.

ISBN:

1948830752
9781948830751

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1345220202

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)