Dream of Ding Village
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Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke's most important novel to date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling ring in contemporary China. Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China, Dream of Ding Village is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken or reparations paid. Dream of Ding Village focuses on one family, destroyed when one son rises to the top of the Party pile as he exploits the situation, while another son is infected and dies. The result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which China is developing and what happens to those who get in the way.
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ISBN: | 9780802119322 |
Publisher: | Grove Atlantic |
Imprint: | Grove Press |
Pub date: | 04 Jan 2011 |
Edition: | Hardback original |
DEWEY: | 895.1352 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 352 |
Weight: | 499g |
Height: | 211mm |
Width: | 145mm |
Spine width: | 33mm |