Book
1 of 1 Copy Available
- CENTRAL: First Floor Collection
Tomorrow in Shanghai : and other stories
Call Number
- FICTION CHAI (CEN)
Publication Information
Durham, NC : Blair, [2022]
Physical Description
141 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai explores a complex blend of cultures spanning China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and in the world at large-revealing the complex schisms in the globalized world. Her stories illuminate the divides between rural and urban, male and female, rich and poor, and those in-between-always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. Chai's stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world"--
Contents
- Tomorrow in Shanghai
- Life on Mars
- The Monkey King of Sichuan
- Hong's Mother
- White Rabbits
- Jia
- Slow Train to Beijing
- The Nanny.