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shanghai.shanghai.shanghai

shanghai.shanghai.shanghai

Kuo, Alex

Paperback

Series: Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0989592456
ISBN13: 9780989592451
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Nov 1 2015
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

shanghai.shanghai.shanghai is a novel about the culture writer and closet novelist Ge and his encounters with such people as a Bogotá pickpocket, a defiant Uighur woman with borrowed baby, a German naval attaché, American evangelicals working the Beijing Olympics, and China's first woman conductor of western classical music. Its main themes uncover the thin fabric that separates state-censorship and self-censorship, and collaboration and corroboration, in China's war of infinite resistance. It avoids conventional narrative techniques; instead it focuses on episodic and interconnected moments revolving in a Shanghai between its foreign-occupied 1939, state-occupied 1989, and the self-occupied present in a Möbius loop, sometimes in the same sentence, and uses backstory sidebars and multiple English and Chinese typefaces to maintain a fluid and cohesive story.

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