Playing for Thrills

Wang Shuo emerged as a literary force in China in the late 1980s, pioneering a movement known as pizi wenxue, or hooligan literature. Instead of ascribing to the Communist Party's goal of "spiritual civilization," he shunned the heroic models common in Chinese literature. Playing for Thrills is the first book published in English from the man whom Newsweek calls "China's literary bad boy" and The Washington Post acclaims as "the irreverent voice of a disillusioned generation." With shades of Chandler and Kerouac, Playing for Thrills is a dark, disembodied, yet compelling story of an antihero's search for the truth about a mysterious murder. As the narrator drifts through the seamy underside of Beijing and its environs, he meets a handful of incredibly varied characters as jaded and enigmatic as himself. * Banned by the Chinese Government for "pander[ing] to low tastes," Wang Shuo's work is increasingly popular in China and worldwide * In China, his more than twenty bestsellers have sold nearly ten million copies and a dozen of his books have been turned into TV soap operas and films

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Wang, Shuo

Mystery

Penguin??Books

Still by far the most popular writer in China even after all his work has been officially banned as reactionary and vulgar, Wang Shuo is famous for his cynical wit, his raw descriptions of sex, and his casual depiction of Chinese drifters, wiseguys, and hooligans. Now, for the first time, comes the publication of one of his novels in English. Playing for Thrills will introduce readers around the world to the writer Newsweek calls "China's literary bad boy" and The Washington Post acclaims as "the irreverent voice of a disillusioned generation."
 A tripped-out, sarcastic novel of urban alienation, Playing for Thrills follows the investigation of a mysterious murder of a possibly imaginary character that took place more than ten years before. The chief suspect is the narrator of the novel who may or may not have committed the crime--even he isn't sure. As our charismatic antihero careens around Beijing drinking beer, having sex, and questioning a bunch of people who speak like characters in a gangster movie, he tries to find someone who can remind him which girl he was with and what he was doing at the time of the murder. Suddenly, the narrative explodes, and the reader is thrust into a countdown leading up to the crime itself. The result is a sometimes frightening, sometimes hilarious, always astonishing novel that is totally unlike anything ever published from China.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

William Morrow

Now Wang Shuo, easily Chinas coolest and most popular novelist, applies his genius for satire and cultural irreverence to one of the worlds sacred rituals, the Olympic Games. In Please Dont Call Me Human, he imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on the basis of athletic prowess, but on their citizens capacity for humiliationand China is determined to win at any cost. Banned in China for its rudeness and vulgarity, this astonishing, tripped-out novel is filled with outlandish antics that have earned Wang Shuo his own genre, hooligan literature.

Please Don't Call Me Human

Literary

Hyperion

China and Africa have long shared a history of allegiance and contact points through global political forces from the time of colonialism and the Cold War. With China's rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. While issues such as trade, aid and development have received much attention, Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture is a neglected field. Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgressionis a ground-breaking volume that addresses this deficit through engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production that prefigures the current relationship. The essays are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture. Visualising China in Southern Africaconfines its focus to southern Africa, yet even within this region, the context is complex. Ethnicity and nationalism, the lingering influence of Cold War allegiances and colonial configurations all continue to play a role. The various visual cultures discussed in this volume emphasise the commonality of these categories, but also point towards other shared histories that transcend the nation-state category. The collection includes scholarly chapters, photo essays, interviews, and artists' personal accounts, organised around four themes: material flows, orientations and transgressions, spatial imaginaries, and biographies. The artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors in this volume include: Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Gerald Machona, Nobukho Nqaba, Marcus Neustetter, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, William Kentridge, Kristin NG-Yang, Kok Nam, Mark Lewis, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Wu Jing, Henion Han and Shengkai Wu.

Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression

Arts & Photography

LEWIS, MARK

Hayes, Patricia

Anthony, Ross

Yang, Yan

Harrison, Philip

Rodrigues, Gemma

Mwaba, Stary

Cheng, Ying

Simbao, Ruth

Toit, Juliette Leeb-du

Assubuji, Rui

Corrigall, Malcolm

Dittgen, Romain

Esmyol, Esther

Hu, Binjun

Huynh, T Tu

Kritzinger, Nicola

Moyo, Khangelani

Neustetter, Marcus

NG-Yang, Kristin

Zhang, Lifang

History & Criticism

Wits University Press

A novel of urban alienation which follows the investigation of the mysterious murder of a possibly imaginary character.

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

No Exit

Aus dem chinesischen Roman von Wang Shuo. Übersetzt von Sabine Peschel. (English Title: Playing For Thrills). Plötzlich taucht in den Bergen die Leiche eines vor zehn Jahren Verschwundenen auf. Die Polizei behauptet, dass Fang, Pekinger Stadtindianer, den Toten als letzter gesehen hat. Ist er ein Mörder? Was genau hat er an besagtem Tag gemacht? Erst allmählich begreift der junge Mann, dass er das Opfer eines gefährlichen Spiels werden soll.Ein ironischer Krimi aus einem China, das offiziell gar nicht existiert.

Herzklopfen heißt das Spiel.

Diogenes-Verlag

This research study attempts to provide a comprehensive CSR literature review, analyze corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues from the strategic decision-making (SDM) perspective, and investigate the process of managers’ CSR- related SDM in China. In particular, it utilizes content analysis to examine selected CSR articles from published studies, in order to evaluate the trends in CSR theory development as well as to identify the variables, constructs, and relationships within CSR theory. 
The review indicates that CSR should be involved in organizational strategies. Therefore, this study reviews the relevant theoretical and empirical literature in the SDM area. Firstly, it summarizes the broader context of strategic decisions and points out factors in the external environment and organizational characteristics that influence the SDM process of managers. Secondly, it articulates the influences of individual characteristics on the SDM. Thirdly, it examines the process of SDM using the rational and bounded rationality theory of decision making. Finally, on the basis of the SDM model, the author generates a research model which proposes the links between vital and influential factors from an integrated perspective. 
This book also provides a detailed description of how to choose a proper method for the CSR-related SDM research, the process of survey design, sampling methods, and survey administration. In particular, the author utilized a policy-capturing method to develop a series of scenarios concerning CSR activities and an explanation of this method is provided. It reports research findings of this study and provides an extensive and thorough discussion and compares it with previous empirical studies. The conclusion summarizes the research findings and their theoretical and practical implications.

Chinese Strategic Decision-making on CSR (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Springer

looks beautiful [Paperback]

People s Literature Publishing House; 1 edition (J

Shuo Collection ( Set a total of 9) [Paperback](Chinese Edition)

Yunnan People's Publishing House; 2 (January 1. 20

This book draws materials from the stories of Emperor Wu of Han from History As A Mirror, History of the Han Dynasty and Records of the Grand Historian. History is stories. And historic landscape has its vastness and profoundness, and one is often helpless once enters it. And some perspectives are easy to be extended. This is the story of an emperor. But after all, it is the story of humanity.

Outset (Annals) (Chinese Edition)

Genre Fiction

New Star Press

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