The Resource The dark road, Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew
The dark road, Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew
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The item The dark road, Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- "If a panda gets pregnant, the entire nation celebrates. But if a woman gets pregnant she's treated like a criminal. What kind of country is this?"Meili, a young peasant woman is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of the great sage Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate to carry on his illustrious line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm into the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter are forced to make a fugitive life on the river. Meili dreams of reaching a place called Heaven, a vast stinking wilderness of toxic waste, where the men eventually turn infertile and the family planning officers don't dare to go. But as their troubled quest to give birth to a son continues, it becomes clear that Kongzi and Meili are not just raging against the state -- they are at war with one another.
- Language
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- eng
- chi
- eng
- Label
- The dark road
- Title
- The dark road
- Statement of responsibility
- Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew
- Subject
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- truePopulation control -- China
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueOne-child family
- trueParent and child
- truePolitical fiction
- truePregnancy
- trueResistance to government
- trueRural families
- trueSocial justice
- trueTranslations -- Chinese to English
- World literature - -- China
- trueAbortion
- trueChange (Psychology)
- trueChina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueFugitives
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- trueInvoluntary sterilization
- trueLiterary fiction
- Ma, Jian, 1953- -- Translations into English
- Language
-
- eng
- chi
- eng
- Summary
- "If a panda gets pregnant, the entire nation celebrates. But if a woman gets pregnant she's treated like a criminal. What kind of country is this?"Meili, a young peasant woman is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of the great sage Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate to carry on his illustrious line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm into the village to arrest violators of the population control policy, mother, father and daughter are forced to make a fugitive life on the river. Meili dreams of reaching a place called Heaven, a vast stinking wilderness of toxic waste, where the men eventually turn infertile and the family planning officers don't dare to go. But as their troubled quest to give birth to a son continues, it becomes clear that Kongzi and Meili are not just raging against the state -- they are at war with one another.
- Summary
- Explores the human cost of China's one-child policy as reflected by a rural family on the run from the state, describing how a cultural imperative to have a son prompted their decision to conceive a second child before becoming subject to cruel government practices of enforced abortion and sterilization
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10176752
- Cataloging source
- BT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ma, Jian
- Dewey number
- 895.1352
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Drew, Flora
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ma, Jian
- Interpersonal relations
- Man-woman relationships
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The dark road, Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew
- Control code
- 000050830418
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 360 p.
- Isbn
- 9780701187545
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Label
- The dark road, Ma Jian ; translated from the Chinese by Flora Drew
- Control code
- 000050830418
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 360 p.
- Isbn
- 9780701187545
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
Subject
- truePopulation control -- China
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- trueOne-child family
- trueParent and child
- truePolitical fiction
- truePregnancy
- trueResistance to government
- trueRural families
- trueSocial justice
- trueTranslations -- Chinese to English
- World literature - -- China
- trueAbortion
- trueChange (Psychology)
- trueChina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueFugitives
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- trueInvoluntary sterilization
- trueLiterary fiction
- Ma, Jian, 1953- -- Translations into English
Genre
- trueLiterary fiction
- truePolitical fiction
- Fiction
- trueTranslations into English
- World literature -
- trueTranslations
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