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

Praise for the first edition:

"... 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

"The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is
captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly
recommended." -- Choice

A classic of modern world literature, this
collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life
in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has
thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new
introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen
era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has
lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of
the period.