Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories

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Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories is written by Shouhua Qi and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1592650686 (ISBN 10) and 9781592650682 (ISBN 13).

Part autobiographical, the stories offer a depiction of the myriad world of jaded entrepreneurs, overzealous cops, karaoke fanatics, dog lovers, liberated coeds, and frustrated urbanites who move in and out of China's colorful neon-lit cities and dusty rural villages; transitioning from one world to the other. Red Guard Fantasies can be viewed as a corollary to the work of noted classical Chinese writers such as Pu Songling (1640-1715) and Wu Jingzi (1701-1754), who challenged ideas of Chinese society and culture through the use of allegory, satire, and the blending of realistic and fantastic elements, often leading the reader through a dream-like, fantasy state where the real and the surreal become one.