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Small Well Lane - A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Small Well Lane - A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Li Longyun's five-act play, "Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), "
is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of
nearly thirty characters of different social roles and individual
persona, the play provides a vivid sense of how a group of working
class Beijing residents living in a courtyard compound in a back
alley, or hutong, named "Small Well Lane" experienced China's
revolution from 1949 to 1980. It beautifully records the art of
talking and living among Beijing back alley folk and provides a
vivid contrast to the concerns and lives of China's elites.
This authoritative translation by Hong Jiang and Timothy Cheek is
accompanied by notes and annotations to help readers not familiar
with China's modern history. A special appendix and ten photographs
bring to life the culture of Beijing's famous back alleys.
This edition of "Small Well Lane" provides readers, and especially
students of modern Chinese history, politics, and literature, with
a compelling story of the human experience of Mao's revolution in
China. It will be of interest to students of modern China and
specialists in Chinese history and literature as well as to the
general reader.
Li Longyun is a professional playwright working at the Beijing
People's Art Theater. Hong Jiang is Assistant Professor of Chinese
Language and Literature, Colorado College. Timothy Cheek is
Associate Professor of History, Colorado College.
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