Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas

Author

Can Xue

Original Works

Old Floating Cloud·Yellow Mud Street

Translators

Ronald R. Janssen·Jian Zhang

Format

Collection / Anthology

Language

English

Year

1991

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Country

United States

Pages

269

ISBN

978-0810109889

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Can Xue draws the reader into a world of the grotesque and the surreal, of uncertain spaces and indeterminate identities, of sexual menace and psychological disorientation. These novellas are about life in post-Mao China, but not the China of social realism or of Western fantasy. At the forefront of China's new literary trends, these two novellas--"Yellow Mud Street" and "Old Floating Cloud"--explore Chinese reality through images of the absurd, sudden and illogical juxtapositions, and the limitless transformations induced by a unique imagination.— Google Books