China in Ten Words

Chinese Book Description in Ten Words In the Chinese reality, the word "People" has been emptied of its essence in the forty years since the Cultural Revolution. Now, according to the economic terminology popular in China, “People” is just a shell company, and China enters the market using it with different contents at different periods. Yu Hua, known for his novels such as Living and The Man Who Sold His Blood, and one of the greatest writers of modern Chinese literature, appears before us this time not as a fiction writer, but as an intellectual who has a say in the recent history and present of his country and society. In Ten Words, Yu Hua tells the cornerstones of his own life and writing in China, as well as the stages of change that China has gone through since the Cultural Revolution, accompanied by many interesting stories, with ten key words at its center. While each word reaches "all corners" of a deep-rooted past and cultural heritage in the pen of a master of literature, we witness how valuable a writer with high observation power can be in providing an alternative history reading of a country and society. China in Ten Words, translated from the Chinese original by Bahar Kılıç, who also translated the author's novel Living, into Turkish... (From the Promotional Bulletin)