A Land of Forlorn Wild Geese - Sheng, John
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The Chinese are a fascinating people, perverse, cruel and exploitative on the one hand and having a great propensity for sweeping romantic gestures and the most delicate art forms on the other. Experience the sweeping vistas of Chinese history in this revealing collection of short stories.

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The Chinese are a fascinating people, perverse, cruel and exploitative on the one hand and having a great propensity for sweeping romantic gestures and the most delicate art forms on the other. Experience the sweeping vistas of Chinese history in this revealing collection of short stories.
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Author: John Sheng (Chinese: ???) was born in Shanghai in the People¿s Republic of China. He arrived in Australia in 1989. He has published several Chinese short stories, entitled Love in the City in 2012, Love in a Foreign Country in 2015, The Adventure of A Yi in 2016, The Death of a Martyr in 2017 and an English short-story collection (translated by Ouyang Yu) titled A Pale Skin (Novum Publishing in 2017). The short-story collection A Land of Forlorn Wide Geese features original stories which give great insight into Chinese life and ways of thinking inherited from the past and mingling with the present. Translator: Ouyang Yu (Chinese: ???) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic. Ouyang Yu born in the People¿s Republic of China, arrived in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph.D. at La Trobe University which he completed in 1995. By 2015, he had published seventy-five books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, literary translation and literary criticism in the English and Chinese language. His noted books include his award-winning novels, The Eastern Slope Chronicle in 2002 and The English Class in 2010. His collection of poetry, Songs of the Last Chinese Poet in 1997 and New and Selected Poems (Salt Publishing in 2004). His translations in Chinese, The Female Eunuch in 1991, The Ancestor Game in 1996, The Man Who Loved Children in 1998, The Fatal Shore in 2014 and Nothing if not Critical in 2015, and his book of literary criticism, Chinese in Australia Fiction (1888-1988) (Cambria Press in 2008).