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| | Amazon.com: Chronicle of a Blood Merchant: Books: Yu Hua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Yu Hua’s characters bring to life the history, culture, traditions, and superstitions of Mao’s China within a story that is well-plotted, poignant, and dramatic. |
 | | Symbolically, of course, Yu Hua is portraying the burdens and hypocrisies of a system in which the lowly and honest can only barely survive by resorting to the extreme measure of selling their energy, their strength, and in some cases, their very lives. |
 | | Third, Yu Hua has skillfully recreated the peasant atmosphere of Chinese village life, complete with gossiping and public lamentations, traditions and superstitions, the importance of connections (guanxi, as the Chinese call it) with higher-ups, and horrific misinformation about human health and personal care. |
| www.amazon.com /Chronicle-Blood-Merchant-Yu-Hua/dp/1400031850 (2769 words) |
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