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Author:
Kojadinović, Miodrag, 1961- author.
Title:
Under thunderous skies : eight tales of China meeting non-China / Miodrag Kojadinović.
Publisher:
Farnshaw Books,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
115 pages ; 18 cm
Subject:
Visitors, Foreign--China--Fiction.
Culture shock--Fiction.
China--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Culture shock.
Manners and customs.
Visitors, Foreign.
China.
Fiction.
Notes:
"EB064."
Contents:
Foreword -- The consul's housekeeper locates the Yellow Sun -- The Year of the Rabbit -- A festive conversation at the House of Wu -- My last night in Macau (that barely anyone knew about) -- Teacher Ma, after Stonewall, and before it... -- On the dregs of an empire (where sun never set) -- Roof in a foreign land -- First time ever : the taste of Guangxi, China.
Summary:
"A girl in Shanghai in high-heels holds a doomed rabbit at the bequest of a client in Germany. The consul of the Austro-Hungarian empire in Canton talks with his mistress about the future of their son. A Chinese man cleans up the fingerprints around his European boyfriend's body in an apartment in Macao. These unusual and intriguing stories of interactions between Chinese and non-Chinese are the work of author Miodrag Kojadinović, born in Serbia and for eight years a teacher of English in a remote corner of China."--Page [4] of cover.
ISBN:
9888273337
9789888273331
OCLC:
(OCoLC)915120838
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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