A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers

Introduces a collection of stories about China. This work brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In Immortality, a you... » 

Introduces a collection of stories about China. This work brings us a modern China facing up to a complex history of repression and guilt. In Immortality, a young man bears a striking resemblance to the dictator, and so finds a strange kind of calling. In Extra, a Chinese woman, alone in middle age, befriends a young boy. «