The Resource Serve the people!, Yan Lianke ; translated by Julia Lovell
Serve the people!, Yan Lianke ; translated by Julia Lovell
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The item Serve the people!, Yan Lianke ; translated by Julia Lovell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Serve the people!, Yan Lianke ; translated by Julia Lovell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
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- Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, "Serve the People! "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. When Liu Lian establishes a rule for her orderly that he is to attend to her needs whenever the household's wooden Serve the People! sign is removed from its usual place, the orderly vows to obey
- What follows is a remarkable love story and a profound and deliciously comic satire on Mao's famous slogan and the political and sexual taboos of his regime
- Language
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- eng
- chi
- eng
- Extent
- 217 pages
- Note
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2007 by Constable
- Isbn
- 9780802170446
- Label
- Serve the people!
- Title
- Serve the people!
- Statement of responsibility
- Yan Lianke ; translated by Julia Lovell
- Subject
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- China, Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun -- Fiction
- trueDuty
- trueExtramarital affairs
- Household employees
- trueHousekeepers
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Military spouses -- Sexual behavior -- China -- Fiction
- Responsibility
- Satire
- Soldiers
- Language
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- eng
- chi
- eng
- Summary
-
- Set in 1967, at the peak of the Mao cult, "Serve the People! "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. When Liu Lian establishes a rule for her orderly that he is to attend to her needs whenever the household's wooden Serve the People! sign is removed from its usual place, the orderly vows to obey
- What follows is a remarkable love story and a profound and deliciously comic satire on Mao's famous slogan and the political and sexual taboos of his regime
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Yan, Lianke
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1975-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Lovell, Julia
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- China
- Military spouses
- China
- Label
- Serve the people!, Yan Lianke ; translated by Julia Lovell
- Note
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2007 by Constable
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 217 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802170446
- Isbn Type
- (softbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)166389997
- ocn166389997
- OCoLC
- Label
- Serve the people!, Yan Lianke ; translated by Julia Lovell
- Note
- Originally published in Great Britain in 2007 by Constable
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 217 pages
- Isbn
- 9780802170446
- Isbn Type
- (softbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)166389997
- ocn166389997
- OCoLC
Subject
- China, Zhongguo ren min jie fang jun -- Fiction
- trueDuty
- trueExtramarital affairs
- Household employees
- trueHousekeepers
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
- China -- History -- Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 -- Fiction
- trueMen/women relations
- Military spouses -- Sexual behavior -- China -- Fiction
- Responsibility
- Satire
- Soldiers
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