04024cam a2200865 4500 597798713 TxAuBib 20220731120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781681374710 1681374714 B08478196V Amazon e8ed678f-c489-4c58-873e-8f965532a1de OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5243210 OverDrive (Product ID) 645932 645932 645932 TxAuBib Fei, Ge. Peach Blossom Paradise [Libby]. New York Review Books, 2020. fantasy. Election. Socialism. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. satire. translation. novels. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1100kB. political science. school. political books. books fiction. russian. historical novels. Economics. Historical Fiction. Historical. literary fiction. Capitalism. Fiction. dystopian books. politics. historical fiction books. books historical fiction. historical fiction novels. romance. society. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. fiction books. Alternate History. culture. classic. Modern. Science Fiction. Revolution. dystopia. dystopian. 20th Century. dystopian fiction. philosophy. Short Stories. War. Political. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:An enthralling story of revolution, idealism, and a savage struggle for utopia by one of China's greatest living novelists. In 1898 reformist intellectuals in China persuaded the young emperor that it was time to transform his sclerotic empire into a prosperous modern state. The Hundred Days’ Reform that followed was a moment of unprecedented change and extraordinary hope—brought to an abrupt end by a bloody military coup. Dashed expectations would contribute to the revolutionary turn that Chinese history would soon take, leading in time to the deaths of millions. Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at his estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative. This mysterious man has a great vision of reforging China as an egalitarian utopia, and he will stop at nothing to make it real. It is his own plans, however, which come to nothing, and his “little sister” Xiumi is left to take up arms against a Confucian world in which women are chattel. Her campaign for change and her struggle to seize control over her own body are continually threatened by the violent whims of men who claim to be building paradise. Media Type: eBook. National Book Award Finalist. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-30 20:00:03. Morse, Canaan. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e8ed678f-c489-4c58-873e-8f965532a1de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e8ed678f-c489-4c58-873e-8f965532a1de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e8ed678f-c489-4c58-873e-8f965532a1de&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)