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Years of Red Dust: Stories Shanghai
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Years of Red Dust: Stories Shanghai
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Years of Red Dust: Stories Shanghai
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Published originally in the pages of
this collection of linked short stories by Qiu Xiaolong has already been a major bestseller in France
and Germany
where it and the author was the subject of a major television documentary. The stories in
trace the changes in modern China over fifty years—from the early days of the Communist revolution in 1949 to the modernization movement of the late nineties—all from the perspective of one small street in Shanghai, Red Dust Lane. From the early optimism at the end of the Chinese Civil War, through the brutality and upheaval of the Cultural Revolution, to the death of Mao, the pro-democracy movement and the riots in Tiananmen Square—history, on both an epic and personal scale, unfolds through the bulletins posted and the lives lived in this one lane, this one corner of Shanghai.