MCLC: Novelistic treatments of the Great Leap Forward (9)

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Novelistic treatments of the Great Leap Forward (9)
Two additional novels:
Zhao Xu's 赵旭 Da ji'e 大饥饿 (作家出版社，2004) is a straightforward novel about the Great Leap famine in a few villages in rural Gansu. According to the forward, the author has also written a novel about Jiabiangou.
In Mo Bai's 墨白 Xunzhao waijingdi 寻找外景地 (长江文艺出版社, 1999), reissued as 映在镜子里的时光 (群众出版社, 2004), a film crew in the mid '90s visits Yinghe, Henan (the setting for much of the author's work) to scout locations for an adaptation of an absurdist novella about a meaningless Great Leap engineering project. The novel interweaves the annotated novella with the crew's journey, the repressed memories of a crew member who had been sent down to the region during the Cultural Revolution, and the locals' unhealed wounds from the catastrophes of those two eras.
Joel Martinsen <jdmartinsen at gmail.com>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on August 5, 2015
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