Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles

by Li Yongping

Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231128746
• ISBN13: 9780231128742
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher