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02818aam a22004578i 4500 001 AB27FE0240FE11EBBF7EE89344ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201218010010 008 200228s2020 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2020010224 020 $a 1681374706 020 $a 9781681374703 035 $a (OCoLC)1137831758 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d TOH $d OCLCO $d ILC $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d HBP $d OCLCO $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h chi 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PL2872.F364 $b R4613 2020 082 00 $a 895.13/52 $2 23 100 1 $a Ge, Fei, $d 1964- $e author. 240 10 $a Ren mian tao hua. $l English 245 10 $a Peach blossom paradise / $c Ge Fei ; translated from the Chinese by Canaan Morse. 264 1 $a New York City : $b New York Review Books, $c [2020] 300 $a vii, 377 pages ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a New York review books classics 500 $a Originally published in Chinese as Ren mian tao hua, 2004. 520 $a "In 1898, China experienced one hundred days of utopia, after a cabal of reformist intellectuals persuaded the young emperor to enact sweeping changes intended to modernize the country and bring about the "Great Unity." Their movement ended in blood and the crowning of two more dictators, but not before it whetted an appetite for revolution all across the country - an appetite that would eventually consume millions of lives. One such life belongs to Xiumi, the young daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who goes insane over a painting, then mysteriously disappears. Days later, Xiumi's mother welcomes to the estate a young man who carries a grand but brutal vision in his heart and a gold cicada in his pocket. When his plans collapse, Xiumi inherits his vision, just as she herself begins fighting the Confucian social mores that view women as property. On her wedding day, she becomes a pawn in a series of violent transactions carried out by men who think they are building paradise; as each one fails, she attempts to repay them in kind by spearheading a movement of her own. Her campaign for change is always a fight to win control of her own body; and the cost of even that is nearly total."--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Women $z China $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Marriage $v Fiction. 651 0 $a China $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Morse, Canaan, $e translator. 830 0 $a New York Review Books classics. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117031327.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20221101012628.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20211106010211.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201218010024.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB27FE0240FE11EBBF7EE89344ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search