All roads lead to the Celestial City and when schoolmaster Po Cheng
drinks too much and falls into a dream, he finds himself on just
such a road. Assisted by teaching colleague Miss Ling, Po Cheng
reaches the imperial capital, rising up through the giddy ranks of
the Chinese civil service to become Prime Minister. Good fortune
appears endless, not least when Miss Ling reappears as an
artist’s model who has changed her name to Precious Pearl so she
can pose in the Forest of Brushes Academy of Art without her
parents finding out. But what Heaven—and alcohol—hand out, they
can also claw back. Trouble is brewing inside and outside the city
walls, and Po Cheng’s eminence means he must now take the rap and
face consequences inevitable from the start. Mustard Seed Itinerary
is a brilliant first novel by an important new voice, bringing to
the formal conventions of traditional Chinese literature the wry
humour of Carrollian satire. As Mullen says, ‘In Daoism and
Buddhism, dream journeys serve as voyages of discovery from which
only a blockhead would return none the wiser. And Po Cheng is no
blockhead.’
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