Jiangnan, that part of east-central China watered by the Yangzi River, is the ironically Edenic setting for these six powerful tales of devotion, betrayal, and defilement. Zhu Lin, a uniquely angry female voice on Chinas literary scene, takes a particular interest in the plight of young women whose exceptional qualities condemn them to exploitation by men. No other contemporary Chinese writer renders the hostility of rural society toward women in such stark and ultimately tragic terms. Serpents tyrannize the innocent in this fictional Jiangnan garden. The title story refers to a fragrant, blood-red flower known as the snakes pillow, which symbolizes an innocent girl betrayed and violated by a male figure of authority. Immersed in the heady and sensual imagery of the natural world, Zhu Lins female protagonists invite comparisons not only with Eve but also with Thomas Hardys Tess.Zhu Lin has said of her fiction that its purpose is to summon the souls of readers who have lost themselves in the turbulence of a society in the transition to modernity—and then to restore these lost souls to the bodies they have left. An evocation of both flesh and spirit, these Jiangnan stories give voice to the complex and disturbing experience of women in a changing society.

Snake's Pillow and Other Stories (Fiction from Modern China, 8)

Literature & Fiction

KING, RICHARD

Lin, Zhu

Literary

University of Hawaii Press

Snake's Pillow and Other Stories (Fiction from Modern China) (Fiction from Modern China, 8)

General Chemistry Lab Manual: Chem 1215 and Chem 1225

Bobby Stanton

Charles H. Atwood

Cengage Learning'

Liang Huiyin and I (Paperback)

Unknown

<p>This book selects eight English articles on Chinese Architectures by the Chinese Architect Liang Sicheng, along with about 100 valuable architectural drawings and photographs. On the basis of the paperback edition, more than thirty pictures from the Bulletin of the Society for Research in Chinese Architecture are included in the hardcover version, a representation of the valuable historical documents.</p>

Chinese Architecture:Art and Artifacts(Bilingual) (Chinese Edition)

Liang, Sicheng

Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Press

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