Nella Cina della Rivoluzione Culturale, il ventunenne Wang Er viene spedito nelle remote campagne dello Yunnan. La sua ‘rieducazione’ si trasforma in un’iniziazione al sesso quando incontra la giovane dottoressa Chen Qingyang e comincia con lei una storia d’amore illecita, che dovrà descrivere nelle sue lunghe e scabrose ‘confessioni’ al Partito, infarcite di dettagli erotici a uso e consumo delle autorità. Tempo dopo, Wang Er lavora a Pechino in università e passa le sue giornate nella me...

"Like a Chinese Kurt Vonnegut. By turns lyrical and satirical, Wang Xiaobo's sexual comedies set during the Chinese Cultural Revolution are as improbable as that genre sounds. His long overdue publication in English comes as a gift. Golden Age is funny and brave and profound."—Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick"At the time Wang was writing, novels about the Cultural Revolution tended to be fairly conventional tales ...

A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity missing from so much of today’s politico-cultural...

Qu'advient-il d’un historien ayant écrit la biographie romancée de son oncle, personnage timide aux amours audacieuses, dans un monde où toute créativité individuelle est impitoyablement châtrée ? Utopie ironique dans l’esprit de Kafka ou d’Orwell, Le Monde futur est le reflet cinglant de la condition imposée aux intellectuels chinois sous le régime communiste.

Wang Xiaobo erzählt die Geschichte eines Mannes, der sich mit Witz und Ironie gegen die absurde Logik einer Diktatur wehrt, und seine Freiheit in der Sexualität sucht.Als der 21-jährige Wang Er während der Kulturrevolution aufs Land verschickt wird, findet er sich den Schikanen seiner Vorgesetzten und den Anfeindungen der Dorfbewohner ausgesetzt, die ihn schließlich beschuldigen, eine Affäre mit der fünf Jahre älteren Ärztin Chen Qinyang zu haben. Der gewiefte Stud...

Like Gary Shteyngart or Michel Houellebecq, Wang Xiaobo is a Chinese literary icon whose satire forces us to reconsider the ironies of history.Wang Er, a twenty-one-year-old ox herder, is shamed by the local authorities and forced to write a confession of his crimes, but he instead takes it upon himself to write a modernist literary tract. Later, as a lecturer at a chaotic, newly built university, Wang Er navigates the bureaucratic maze of 1980’s China, boldly writ...

An essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.Wang Xiaobo's Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East and West and serious musings on the intellectual situations at home and abroad, Xiaobo examines modern life with the levity missing from so much of today's politico-cultural discourse....

Dragons with Clay Feet? presents state-of-the-art research on the impact of ongoing and anticipated economic policy and institutional reforms on agricultural development and sustainable rural resource in two East-Asian transition (and developing) economies-China and Vietnam. The contributions to this volume focus on the regional and sectoral impact of transformational policies, farm household decision making under a changing economic and institutional environment, and potential tr...

Metamaterial Design and Additive Manufacturing covers optimization design, manufacturing, microstructure, mechanical properties, acoustic properties, mass-transport properties and application examples of PMs fabricated by selective laser melting additive manufacturing technology. The book introduces the definition and concept of pentamode metamaterials and then describes their characterization, including manufacturing fidelity, mechanical response, acoustic properties and so on. Final sect...

This book introduces a cutting-edge hybrid modeling framework that integrates both knowledge-based and data-driven techniques to tackle the challenges faced by the simulation of intelligent combat systems.Simulation has long been the primary method for evaluating the effectiveness of combat systems, often through the creation of virtual test environments. However, the increasing complexity and dynamic nature of modern battlefield environments present significant challenges for trad...

This book summarizes the basic achievements in the research field of serpentine nozzles, three-axis vectoring nozzles, and single expansion ramp nozzles, in order to provide theoretical basis and technical support for the application of special types of nozzles in aviation engines under different task requirements. It is based on the research results of the Jet Propulsion Theory and Engineering Research Institute of Northwestern Polytechnical University, combined with the latest research s...

Reconstructing Resilient Communities after the Wenchuan Earthquake: Disaster Recovery in China looks at the changes in Chinese society following the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan from various perspectives ranging from reconstruction policy, mental care for disaster victims, tourism in disaster areas, ethnic minorities, and disaster prevention education. The Wenchuan Earthquake, which occurred three months prior to the Beijing Olympics, attracted worldwide attention in May of 2008. Fo...