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" Retribution : "
Li Yung-p'ing ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
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BL
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1007035
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b761405
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| Uniform Title
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Jiling chun qiu.English
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Li, Yongping,1947-
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Retribution : : the Jiling Chronicles /\ Li Yung-p'ing ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, [2003]
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, ©2003
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Modern Chinese literature from Taiwan
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1 online resource (246 pages).
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0231508921
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0231128746
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9780231128742
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Retribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution provide the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters and events provide divergent perspectives on the rape and its aftermath. The result is an unforgettable exploration of the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief, and the inexorable cycles of karmic retribution.--
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Rape, Fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Asian-- General.
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Manners and customs.
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Rape.
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China, Social life and customs, Fiction.
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China.
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895.1/352
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PL2877.Y89J5413 2003eb
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Goldblatt, Howard,1939-
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Lin, Sylvia Li-chun
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Jiling Chronicles
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