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is the masterpiece from the author who is among the top three contemporary Chinese novelists, The translator is a legend, Required background reading or a little bit of information about Chinese culture and language,
"Ruined cities" is the story of Zhou Min running away with an unhappily married woman, Tang Waner and settling down in Jias own hometown of Xian disguised as xijing, its is the stroy of Zhuang Zhidie most probably portraying Jia and his affairs and emotional attachments with different women e.
g. Tang Wan'er . . This was initially banned in China due to explicit sexual contents, but later as in the version I read the author deleted most of the explicit words.
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As I noted repeatedly in my status updates while reading this book, I feel like I don't have enough context to judge it knowledgeably or even fairly.
But I'm going to give it a score based purely on my emotional reaction to it, Friends who read Chinese, please feel free to argue with me,

This novel is quite different from other works of contemporary Chinese literature I've read recently: it's a predominantly straightforward realistic narrative, with only very minor touches of comedy, fantasy, and allegory leavening an otherwise rather traditional story.
The erotic touches that made the novel so scandalous in China seem very tame to a Western reader and they're intentionally and rather comically censored by the author anyway and the episodic character of the narrative, which relates one incident after another in linear time, seems almost naive.


Nonetheless, there's something remarkably compelling here, Through meticulous care in setting and character and by focusing on just a few intellectual celebrities as well as their wives, acolytes and enemies, Jia Pingwa builds a city from top to bottom for the reader.
We learn its inner workings: its domestic life, bureaucracy, markets, and criminal underworld, From the lowliest junkman to the local mayor, we watch this city and its denizens gradually grow more amoral and more decadent in a short period of time.
While greed and venality play a big part in the downfall of

many of the characters in the novel, apathy, emotional ambivalence and even sheer laziness also contribute.
Almost no one in this novel is a hero or a villainthey're mostly ordinary people trying to get by with the least possible effort for the greatest possible gain.
While the reader may not "like" or sympathize with any of these individuals, it's also very hard to hate or judge themthey are too like people we might know even people we might be.


On a final note: I was impressed by the portrayal of women and women's everyday lives in this novel, No one in the book is a saint, and the women here are generally just as venal, sensual and selfserving as the men, but Jia Pingwa really seems to understand how hard women work in a fairly traditional and patriarchal society like most of modernday China.
Women here don't just have to keep up appearances at home and with extended family, they're also frequently responsible for maintaining their husband's public face, glossing over social fauxpas, making apologies and amends where necessary, even representing their spouse at court.
And they get virtually nothing in return, Perhaps the only genuinely sympathetic character in the entire novel is writercelebrity Zhuang Zhidie's longsuffering wife, Niu Yuequing, Sometimes rigid, even puritanical she's quick to call other, less fortunate or less monogamous women, whores, she's endlessly strong and supportive when it's most necessary while quick to anger, she's also reliable, generous, and always looking to do the right thing at the right time.
She's not the tragic heroine that Tang Wan'er proves to be I'm still shattered and unsettled by her fate, but she's someone I liked and cared about as a reader and her final moments in the book, while very true to life, also seem remarkably unjust.
Nếu được đọc bản đầy đủ tác giả không phải cắt đi do kiểm duyệt, truyện này xứng đáng trọnsao.
Đọc Phế Đô nhớ Kim Bình Mai, A very weak and pretentious work with influence from Jin Ping Mei, Đọc Phế đô ấn tượng nhất với ông mua đồng nát Đọc Phế Đô nên muốn học thổi huyên.
Nhưng có vẻ năng lực không tới, ed by sitelinkThe Complete So disgusting, stopped after reading a few chapters, This book was slow and weird, I did not like it, I would give it negative if I could,
When originally published in, Ruined City Fei Du was promptly banned by Chinas State Publishing Administration, ostensibly for its explicit sexual content.
Since then, awardwinning author Jia Pingwas vivid portrayal of contemporary Chinas social and economic transformation has become a classic, viewed by critics and scholars of Chinese literature as one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.
Howard Goldblatts deft translation now gives Englishspeaking readers their first chance to enjoy this masterpiece of social satire by one of Chinas most provocative writers.


While eroticism, exoticism, and esoteric minutiaethe “pornography” that earned the opprobrium of Chinese officialspervade Ruined City, this tale of a famous contemporary writers sexual and legal imbroglios is an incisive portrait of politics and culture in a rapidly changing China.
In a narrative that ranges from political allegory to parody, Jia Pingwa tracks his antihero Zhuang Zhidie through progressively more involved and inevitably disappointing sexual liaisons.
Set in a modern metropolis rife with power politics, corruption, and capitalist schemes, the novel evokes an unrequited romantic longing for Chinas premodern, rural past, even as unfolding events caution against the trap of nostalgia.
Amid comedy and chaos, the author subtly injects his concerns about the place of intellectual seriousness, censorship, and artistic integrity in the changing conditions of Chinese society.


Rich with detailed description and vivid imagery, Ruined City transports readers into a world abounding with the absurdities and harshness of modern life.

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