Ruined City, Volume 5

by Jia Pingwa

Book Overview

When originally published in 1993, Ruined City (Fei Du) was promptly banned by China's State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content. Since then, award-winning author Jia Pingwa's vivid portrayal of contemporary China's social and economic transformation has become a classic, viewed by critics and scholars of Chinese literature as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Howard Goldblatt's deft translation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806151730
• ISBN13: 9780806151731
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"