Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles by Yung-P'Ing Li

Retribution: The Jiling Chronicles

Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan (Hardcover)

Yung-P'Ing Li with Sylvia Lin (Translator), Howard Goldblatt (Translator)

240 pages • missing pub info (editions)

fiction adventurous mysterious medium-paced
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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 increas...

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