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This gorgeous peach-colored volume from NYRB classics is a beautiful addition to my Chinese literature collection. A startling and wonderful story centering on an interesting and atypical female protagonist. It concocts a poignant tragedy from the personal life lessons endured by one girl who laments her fate within an unstable…

This was one of my favorite modern Chinese novels. Instead of dealing with the horrors of war and destruction of families and bureaucracies, as in Mo Yan and Yan Lianke’s works, this was a breath of fresh air.  It read much more like Japanese fiction in its depiction of an…