{"product_id":"9780253110947","title":"The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003ePraise for the first edition:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"... in the great\u003cbr\u003e tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival -- and\u003cbr\u003e sometimes the defeat -- of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is\u003cbr\u003e captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly\u003cbr\u003e recommended.\" -- Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA classic of modern world literature, this\u003cbr\u003e collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life\u003cbr\u003e in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has\u003cbr\u003e thoroughly revised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new\u003cbr\u003e introduction, Perry Link reflects on the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen\u003cbr\u003e era. Twenty-five years after its first publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has\u003cbr\u003e lost none of its power to move the reader, and remains unmatched as a document of\u003cbr\u003e the period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084695060720,"sku":"9780253110947","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253110947","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}