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- catalog abstract ""Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the Local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the attack, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution form the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters provide divergent perspectives on the rape and its aftermath. The result is an unforgettable exploration of the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief, and the inexorable cycles of karmic retribution."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Jiling Chronicles".
- catalog alternative "Jiling chun qiu. English".
- catalog contributor b12974892.
- catalog contributor b12974893.
- catalog contributor b12974894.
- catalog coverage "China Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the Local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the attack, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution form the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters provide divergent perspectives on the rape and its aftermath.".
- catalog description "Book 1. White Dress 1 -- Book 2. Empty Doors 71 -- Book 3. Chaos in Heaven 129 -- Book 4. Raining Flowers 197.".
- catalog description "The result is an unforgettable exploration of the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief, and the inexorable cycles of karmic retribution."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "246 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0231128746 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780231128742 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog identifier "9780231508926 (electronic bk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng chi".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "China Social life and customs Fiction.".
- catalog subject "895.1/352 21".
- catalog subject "PL2877.Y89 J5413 2003".
- catalog subject "Rape Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Book 1. White Dress 1 -- Book 2. Empty Doors 71 -- Book 3. Chaos in Heaven 129 -- Book 4. Raining Flowers 197.".
- catalog title "Jiling Chronicles".
- catalog title "Jiling chun qiu. English".
- catalog title "Retribution : the Jiling Chronicles / Li Yung-p'ing ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".