Serve the people!
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Serve the people!
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The work Serve the people! represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
- Label
- 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
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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
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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