St. Martin's Press Griffin
November 2011
On Sale: November 8, 2011
240 pages ISBN: 0312609256 EAN: 9780312609252 Kindle: B003P9WEAW Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
Published originally in the pages of Le Monde, this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France (Cite de la Poussiere Rouge) and Germany (Das Tor zur Roten Gasse), where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary.
The stories in Years of Red Dust trace the changes in modern China over fifty yearsโfrom the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late ninetiesโall from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism at the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Squareโhistory, on both an epic and personal scale, unfolds through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.
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