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The Last Communist Virgin
Short Stories by Wang Ping
"Wang Ping's The Last Communist Virgin is a beauty of a collection. She has interwoven the earthiness of China and the harshness of immigrant life, as well as the pull of the homeland and the lure of the new land, to create a series of short stories that are at once pitiful, heartbreaking, funny, and deeply inspiring. 'The Homecoming of an Old Beijing Man' is the most spot-on portrait of contemporary China I've read anywhere."
—Lisa See
Building a bridge between China and the U.S., Wang Ping deftly sketches lives unsettled by change and souls determined to find harmony in an unstable world. These stories uncover the raw things that bind us: love, land, sex, honor, and pride, all while producing vivid portraits of bustling Beijing, New York, and rural Chinese communities increasingly fractured by the focus on industrialization over agricultural heritage. Wang's first collection of stories in over a decade, The Last Communist Virgin is a fresh and insightful exploration of the effects that China's economic and cultural emergence has had on both sides of the ocean.
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