Butterfly Changes: Revelation, Metamorphoses and Love in Mao's China - Vision, R.
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A novel set in a newly re-opened 1980s China after Mao's death, Butterfly Changes is a timely cross-cultural love story. Through a shared love of writing, a Chicago boy fleeing a bloody past as a Sixties radical meets a Shanghai girl desperate to flee the grip of an ever-present Chinese feudal culture. No one is more surprised than they are when they fall in love and marry. The novel is in two parts, told from the two lovers' very different perspectives. Jack's story is an attempt to write a novel about revolution, revelation, and a love he dared not hope for; Hai Bao's version is often…mehr

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A novel set in a newly re-opened 1980s China after Mao's death, Butterfly Changes is a timely cross-cultural love story. Through a shared love of writing, a Chicago boy fleeing a bloody past as a Sixties radical meets a Shanghai girl desperate to flee the grip of an ever-present Chinese feudal culture. No one is more surprised than they are when they fall in love and marry. The novel is in two parts, told from the two lovers' very different perspectives. Jack's story is an attempt to write a novel about revolution, revelation, and a love he dared not hope for; Hai Bao's version is often hilarious and exposes painful doubts as she attempts to set the record straight about her family, dashed hopes, Chairman Mao, Chinese culture, and a love she never imagined. Their wedding journey through "hell" (the disaster that is Western China in the 1980s) tests their love and understanding - and Jack's politics. Butterfly Changes changes from him to her; from fact to fiction; from Qing Dynasty Shanghai courtesans to Boss Daley and murder in Chicago; from the desert of Xinjiang to the mountains of British Columbia; from poetry to Chinglish; from gibberish to love and sex - always changing, always seeking stability. Together the two halves of the novel create an intimate and moving love story in which the only certainty is that just when you think you understand the complicated, clashing webs of culture and two unique individuals, they are about to metamorphose into something completely unexpected