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The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China)

by Hua Yu

Format:  Paperback
Published:  June 1996
Category:  General
Publisher:  Univ of Hawaii Pr
Pages:  336

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That the concept and history of punishment should figure heavily in the artistic sensibility of a young Chinese writer who grew up during the Cultural Revolution is hardly surprising. The main characters in both the title story and in '1986' are scholars specializing in the history of punishment through the ages, and an ancient fortune teller in another story is said to have achieved near-immortality through the deaths of his first four children. Personality and feeling are almost secondary in Yu Hua's cruel world, a world dominated by numerology, prophecy, and the faceless power of the state.

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