{"product_id":"serve-the-people-paperback","title":"Serve the People! - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYan Lianke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulia Lovell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBanned in China, \u003ci\u003eServe the People!\u003c\/i\u003e is the sexy, satirical sensation chronicling a love affair between the wife of a powerful Communist army commander and her household's servant--a remarkable, profound, and deliciously comic satire on Mao's famous slogan and the political and sexual taboos of his regime\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday Yan Lianke's best-known work, \u003ci\u003eServe the People! \u003c\/i\u003efound a wide underground audience in 2005 via excerpts and in chat rooms on the internet, before it was ultimately banned by Chinese authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, \u003ci\u003eServe the People!\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautifully told, wickedly daring story about the forbidden love affair between Liu Lian, the young, pretty wife of a powerful Division Commander in Communist China, and her household's lowly servant, Wu Dawang. Left to idle at home while her husband furthers the revolution, Liu Lian establishes a rule for her orderly: whenever the household's wooden Serve the People! sign is removed from its usual place on the dinner table and placed elsewhere, Wu Dawang is to stop what he is doing and attend to her needs upstairs. The orderly, an exemplary soldier, vows to obey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs life is breathed into the illicit sexual affair, Yan Lianke brilliantly captures how the Model Soldier Wu Dawang becomes an eager collaborator with the restless and demanding Liu Lian, their actions inspired by primitive passions that they are only just discovering. The two-month sexual affair culminates in three days of ravenous lovemaking, the peak of which is an evening in which the lovers compete to see who can prove themselves the most counterrevolutionary by destroying the compound's most sacred Communist icons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYan tramples on the sacrosanct taboos of the army, sexuality, and political etiquette in this funny, subversive critique of official corruption and the hypocrisy of leadership. His first work to be translated into English, \u003ci\u003eServe the People!\u003c\/i\u003e brings us the debut of one of the most important authors writing from inside China today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYan Lianke \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThree Brothers \u003c\/i\u003eand numerous novels and novellas, including \u003ci\u003eHard Like Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Day the Sun Died\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Explosion Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Four Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLenin's Kisses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDream of Ding Village\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Years, Months, Days\u003c\/i\u003e. Among many accolades, he was awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the Franz Kafka Prize, and was elected as a Royal Society of Literature International Writer. He was twice a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize, and he has been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Man Asian Literary Prize, and the Prix Femina étranger. He has also received two of China's most prestigious literary honors, the Lu Xun Prize and the Lao She Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.24 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43156421148735,"sku":"9780802170446","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/rEETecZVu99780802170446.webp?v=1776972153","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/serve-the-people-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}