Scratching the head of chairman Mao / Jonathan Tel.
"China is the center of the world, and the center of China is Beijing, and at the center of Beijing is a billionaire financier named Qin. As Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao opens, Qin is lying in state at his funeral, victim of a sudden and premature death. Moving back and forth in time, we meet...
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Language: | English |
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Brooklyn, New York :
Turtle Point Press,
[2020]
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Physical Description: | 207 pages ; 19 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"China is the center of the world, and the center of China is Beijing, and at the center of Beijing is a billionaire financier named Qin. As Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao opens, Qin is lying in state at his funeral, victim of a sudden and premature death. Moving back and forth in time, we meet a wide range of Chinese, all linked to Qin by a degree or two of separation: a property developer, a street artist, a prostitute, a fashion model, a spy, a thief, an expat lawyer, a muckraking journalist. By the end of this biting, post-post-modern cultural observation, the manner of Qin's death is revealed. Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao presents today's China in its full and fabulous complexity."--Page 4 of cover. |
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Call Number: | PS3620.E44 S29 2020 |
ISBN: | 9781885983725 1885983727 |