Old Floating Cloud: Two Novellas

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.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 05/01/1992
ISBN: 9780810109889
Pages: 269
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/20/1991