The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Eight stories displaying anger, melancholy, and satire reflect the dissident literature of contemporary China and the reality of life during and after the Cultural Revolution. The Execution of Mayor Yin "Chairman Mao is a Rotten Egg" Night Duty Residency Check Ren Xiulan [Jen Hsiu-lan] The Big Fish Geng Er in Peking [Keng Erh in Peking] Nixon's Press Corps ". . . in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival—and sometimes the defeat—of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." —Time