The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Praise for the first edition: "... in the great tradition ofOrwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival--and sometimes the defeat--ofthe human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." --Time "The almostchildlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of thisnew edition... Highly recommended." --Choice A classic of modern worldliterature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everydaylife in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughlyrevised the text and updated it to Pinyin romanization. In a new introduction, Perry Link reflectson the book's significance in the post-Tiananmen era. Twenty-five years after itsfirst publication, The Execution of Mayor Yin has lost none of its power to move the reader, andremains unmatched as a document of the period.