{"product_id":"the-rice-sprout-song-paperback","title":"The Rice Sprout Song - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEileen Chang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDavid Der-Wei Wang\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first of Eileen Chang's novels to be written in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Rice-Sprout Song\u003c\/i\u003e portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean an end to hunger. Man-made and natural disasters bring about the threat of famine, while China's involvement in the Korean War further deepens the peasants' misery. Chang's chilling depiction of the peasants' desperate attempts to survive both the impending famine and government abuse makes for spellbinding reading. Her critique of communism rewrites the land-reform discourse at the same time it lays bare the volatile relations between politics and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA modern Chinese classic.--C. T. Hsia, author of \u003ci\u003eHistory of Modern Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA modern Chinese classic.--C. T. Hsia, author of \u003ci\u003eHistory of Modern Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Eileen Chang beautifully and movingly evokes 20th-century China and the hearts and minds of Chinese women.--Jung Chang, author of \u003ci\u003eWild Swans: Three Daughters of China\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"[Chang] is arguably the finest prose stylist of the 20th century.\"--Frederick Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Der-wei Wang\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Chinese Literature at Columbia University. His current publications include \u003ci\u003eRunning Wild: Contemporary Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 7.9 x 4.97 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 10, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736931569727,"sku":"9780520210882","price":60.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c81bad1feb0fd2af7fac0347689d140e.webp?v=1765148319","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-rice-sprout-song-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}