Retribution : The Jiling Chronicles.
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 he...
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Other Authors / Creators: | Goldblatt, Howard. Lin, Sylvia. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, 2003. |
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Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- BOOK ONE White Dress
- In Great Blessings Lane
- Sun Showers
- Red Sky Ballad
- BOOK TWO Empty Doors
- Worldly Affairs
- Lamp
- Eleven's Mother
- BOOK THREE Chaos in Heaven
- Snake Enmity
- A Wonderful Spring Rain
- Night in a Desolate Town
- BOOK FOUR Raining Flowers
- Flood
- Yearning
- Flowers Rain from the Sky.