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Foreign
Devil
Reviews
Newsday:
"Powerful . . . Foreign Devil is as intelligent and witty as its main character."
Chicago Tribune:
"An exciting, important voice among a generation of American writers working to enlarge and change our ideas of who we are."
Publishers Weekly:
"The scenes depicting the brutality of China's repressive society are as searing as those in Anchee Min's Red Azalea, and [Wang] writes with compelling candor about an authoritative regime where the experiences of victim and torturer are often interchangeable."
Herald Sunday:
"The gripping beauty of [Foreign Devil] lies in Wang's depictions of physical labor and the Kafkaesque whirlpool of political danger . . . [she] has produced a gritty novel of survival, touched with the drama of family dynamics."
Asian Pages:
"A powerful, engrossing tale of a woman who learns faith and love through fear, loss, and despair, Foreign Devil reveals a captivating and richly evocative portrait of Chinese life."
Asian Week:
"[Wang's] prose is direct, mystical, and vulgar, sprinkled with passages of poetic beauty. Though set in a concrete historical period, [her] themes are timeless and enduring."
Education About Asia:
"This accessible novel is appropriate for all undergraduates since it addresses concerns experienced by all young men and women . . . Given the intensifying multicultural pressures on China and Asia, not to mention America, we can expect many works of literature not only will, but must, address the redefinition of gender and self in both hemispheres. Foreign Devil helps initiate the dialogue on these issues."
Review of Contemporary Fiction:
"Very fluid and readable prose."
Poetry Project Newsletter:
"Wonderful, intriguing reading about what it is to be Chinese, different, and just human."
Villager:
"Wang shows an uncanny ability to capture innocence and political knowledge during China's Cultural Revolution."
Boston University Daily Free Press:
"An impressive, passionate debut novel."
Minnesota Daily:
"Illustrating the intense conflict between the government rule, the people and the individual, Wang Ping delivers a crash course in the Chinese Cultural Revolution."
Shaman Drum Bookshop Holiday Books Catalog:
"Attests to the endurance and passion of the spirit during the harshest of times."
Library Journal:
"A wonderful narrative."
Kirkus Reviews:
"A vivid debut novel of life and love in Red China [featuring] a true-grit heroine."
Booklist:
"[Wang's] full-bodied portrait of the stoic Ni Bing is as memorable as it is unusual."
Chuck Wachtel:
"In a world where the wind of ideology blows so fiercely that no one's will remains unbent, to cry for the suffering of an enemy is to become an enemy yourself. This is the world—China during and just after the cultural revolution—in which the narrator of this remarkable novel spends her childhood and adult life. . . . Foreign Devil is a rare thing: a novel possessed of a genuine and original beauty."
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