New and Selected Poems 1960 - 2010. "In his impressive body of work spanning 40 years, Alex Kuo consistently pushes the limits of literary genres while defying some of society's most deeply entrenched assumptions..In fusing the political and the literary, Mr. Kuo illuminates over and over again the profound power of the art." -- Pauline Chen "Line after line I am surprised and moved by the way his language connects the rhythmns of our collective memory, imagination and chance." -- Ping-kwan Leung

A Chinaman's Chance

Literature & Fiction

Kuo, Alex

Kuo, Alexander

Poetry

Wordcraft of Oregon, LLC

CADENZAS is a work of fiction that narrates a conversation between music and language, with walkins by Dorothy Parker, Dante, Edith Sitwell, J.S. Bach, Qiu Jin, Dmitri Shostakovich, June Jordan. It is Alex Kuo's accumulation of more than eighty years of living, listening and writing on several continents and breathing in the cadences of several languages, including three Chinese dialects.

Cadenzas (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

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Mao's Kisses: A Novel of June 4, 1989 (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Among the shelves of books that have been published on Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square incident—in Chinese and English, inside and outside China—Mao’s Kisses: A Novel of June 4, 1989 is the first novel.
Mao’s Kisses is told from the point of view of Ge, the personal notetaker of China’s paramount leader at the time, Deng Xiaoping, as well as his main bridge partner. It tracks the events in April and May that led first to the declaration of martial law to quell the turmoil, then to the fatal decision to order the People’s Liberation Army to use their Type 68 assault rifles loaded with hollow point bullets against its own students and citizens demonstrating for political reform, and finally to send its Type 59 MBT tanks into Tiananmen (Gate of Heavenly Peace) Square on Sunday, June 4.
Staying astonishingly close to historical accuracy, Ge’s narrative chronicles the competing ideologies, betrayals, incompetence and flip-flops among and between the inchoate students and senior Party comrades in another muddled episode of China’s history.

Genre Fiction

His memory -- his mind, really -- is blocking and altering his recollection of what transpired in the early forties in Chongqing. What he remembers about his mother is especially jagged and conflicting. Such repression is a theme Alex Kuo pursues in many of his stories. Likewise censorship and state terrorism, ideology and dissidence.

Lipstick And Other Stories- P

Short Stories & Anthologies

Soho Press

A political and environmental novel, bound to raise eyebrows on both sides of the Pacific. Two finite-numbers mathematicians - a Chinese woman and a Chinese American man - become disillusioned with teaching. She goes to work in China's Three Gorges Dam, he for Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. Unknown to each other, they struggle to balance their personal values against the global corporate determinism of dam building. Playing China's boom against the story of the American West, this novel is energetic, lyrical, and funny.

The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze

United States

Haven Books

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A Chinaman's Chance

Cadenzas (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Mao's Kisses: A Novel of June 4, 1989 (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Mao's Kisses: A Novel of June 4, 1989 (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Lipstick And Other Stories- P

The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze