A Dictionary of Maqiao

From: The Village Voice | Date: September 17, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Han Shaogong's Audacious, Digressive Dictionary Plays Hopscotch With Chinese History A DICTIONARY OF MAQIAO By Han Shaogong Translated by Julia Lovell Columbia University Press 323pp., $28 SEE UNDER: STICK

"Language," Han Shaogong writes in A Dictionary of Maqiao, "isn't something to be sneezed at." Certainly not in China, where the wrong word can still land you in prison, and not here either, where we practically swim in the stuff, sucking it in like smog-choked air, and yet too often forget to see that it's words that make the world. In his first novel to be translated into English ...

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