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There's nothing I can do when I think of you late at night

Title
  1. There's nothing I can do when I think of you late at night / Cao Naiqian ; translated by John Balcom.
Published by
  1. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Supplementary content
  1. Verlag
Author
  1. Cao, Naiqian, 1949-

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Additional authors
  1. Balcom, John.
Description
  1. xiv, 232 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. Painting a stark portrait of adultery, bestiality, incest and vice in rural China, Cao Naiqian describes the struggles of those who barely, if ever, escape necessity.
Series statement
  1. Weatherhead books on Asia
Uniform title
  1. Dao hei yi xiang ni mei ban fa. English
  2. Weatherhead books on Asia.
Alternative title
  1. Dao hei yi xiang ni mei ban fa.
Subject
  1. Manners and customs
  2. Landleben
  3. Shanxi Sheng (China) > Social life and customs > Fiction
  4. China > Shanxi Sheng
  5. Provinz Shanxi
Genre/Form
  1. Belletristische Darstellung.
  2. Fiction.
Contents
  1. Introduction: The Austere Lyricism of Cao Naiqian / John Balcom -- The In-law -- Women -- Leng Er -- In a Nest of Oat Straw -- Uncle Pothook -- Men -- Thieves -- Widow San -- Dog -- Party -- Leng Er -- Lucky Ox -- Eating Cakes -- Old Guiju -- Danwa -- Heinu and Her Andi -- Sun -- The Woman of the Zhu Household -- Lucky Ox -- Heavenly Sun -- The Graveyard Shift -- Dog -- Chou Bang Herds Sheep -- The Taste of Oat Flour -- Wen Shan -- Old Yinyin -- Watching the Fields -- Old Guiju and His White Neck -- Flushing out Ground Squirrels -- Corncob.
Call number
  1. JFD 09-2530
Note
  1. Translated from the Chinese.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Author
  1. Cao, Naiqian, 1949-
Title
  1. There's nothing I can do when I think of you late at night / Cao Naiqian ; translated by John Balcom.
Imprint
  1. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. Weatherhead books on Asia
  2. Weatherhead books on Asia.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
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  1. Table of contents
  2. Table of contents
  3. http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7312/cao-14810
Added author
  1. Balcom, John.
LCCN
  1. 2008040954
Other standard identifier
  1. 99933937054
ISBN
  1. 9780231148108 (alk. paper)
  2. 0231148100 (alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFD 09-2530
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