shanghai.shanghai.shanghai Contributor(s): Kuo, Alex (Author) |
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ISBN: 0989592456 ISBN-13: 9780989592451 Publisher: Redbat Books OUR PRICE: $17.77 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Asian American |
Series: Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.80 lbs) 224 pages |
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Publisher Description: shanghai.shanghai.shanghai is a novel about the culture writer and closet novelist Ge and his encounters with such people as a Bogot pickpocket, a defiant Uighur woman with borrowed baby, a German naval attach , 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 M bius loop, sometimes in the same sentence, and uses backstory sidebars and multiple English and Chinese typefaces to maintain a fluid and cohesive story. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kuo, Alex: - Born in Boston, Alex Kuo lived his early childhood for most of the Second World War in the French Concession of occupied Shanghai. He is married to the writer Joan Burbick, and has lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest for most of the last sixty years, with extensive teaching appointments in Beijing, Changchun and Hong Kong. He was awarded a United Nations research grant for his last novel The Man Who Dammed the Yangtze partly set at China's Three Gorges Dam. Since a MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1963, he has published more than 350 poems, stories, photographs, essays and extended interviews in magazines, newspapers and anthologies, as well as thirteen books. Among his many honors, he has received three National Endowment for the Arts awards, Fulbright and Lingnan Professorships, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residency, Knox College's Alumni Achievement Award, and the American Book Award in 2002 for his Lipstick and Other Stories. www.alexkuo.org |