Chaos and All That: An Irreverent Novel (Fiction from Modern China)
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ISBN: 082481651X / Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, November 1994
A novel set against the background of post-Mao China offers an irreverent exploration of the inner life of Huang Haha, a Chinese student living in London
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This brilliant little novel, set against the backdrop of post-Mao China, juxtaposes recollections of childhood, pet ownership, and marriage with discussions of art, sex, and murder, weaving together an absurdist tapestry that is the inner life of the novel’s felicitously named protagonist, Huang Haha. Subversive, iconoclastic, and wholly irreverent.
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