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Originally published in 1987, two years before the Tiananmen Square protests, Zhang Wei's award-winning novel is the story of three generations of the Sui, Zhao, and Li families living in the fictional northern town of Wali during China's troubled postliberation years.Spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, The Ancient Ship is a bold examination of a society in turmoil, the…
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Wei Zhang
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 451
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061704673
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