The Rice Sprout Song by Chang, Eileen

The Rice Sprout Song (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520210882)

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The Rice Sprout Song by Chang, Eileen

The Rice Sprout Song

$27.95
The Rice Sprout Song by Chang, Eileen

The Rice Sprout Song

$27.95
Format: Paperback
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The first of Eileen Chang's novels to be written in English, The Rice-Sprout Song portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean an end to hunger. Man-made and natural disasters bring about the threat of famine, while China's involvement in the Korean War further deepens the peasants' misery. Chang's chilling depiction of the peasants' desperate attempts to survive both the impending famine and government abuse makes for spellbinding reading. Her critique of communism rewrites the land-reform discourse at the same time it lays bare the volatile relations between politics and literature.

Author: Eileen Chang
ISBN-10: 0520210883
ISBN-13: 9780520210882
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/10/1998
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.97w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/1998 pg. 224
By Eileen Chang
By Eileen Chang
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David Der-wei Wang is Professor of Chinese Literature at Columbia University. His current publications include Running Wild: Contemporary Chinese Fiction (1994).

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