Word: chen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon -Innocent Erendira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Márquez -Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer -The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi -The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke -The World According to Garp, John Irving
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Màrquez ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke The World According to Garp, John Irving
Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving...
...Chen Jo-hsi reserves a special scorn for devotees of those I've-been-to-China travelogues that portray a China far more unreal than her fiction. Nixon's Press Corps shows the enforcers of the Communist Party requiring entire neighbor hoods to tear down their makeshift laundry drying racks suspended from people's dwellings so that they will not be eye sores for the foreign visitors. In fact, the visitors never turn up. The lesson here is that often the most difficult struggles come, not in grand political arenas, but in the small and petty matters...
...feel like making the trip to Chinatown, you can choose from among several excellent Chinese restaurants lining Mass Ave. For a varied menu, Joyce Chen in Central Square is the place; for Szechuan, try the popular Hunan (Central Square) or Yenching (opposite Widener library). The brunch buffet at the Yenching is excellent and inexpensive. With all these excellent Chinese restaurants on our minds, we forgot all about the Hong Kong; you should...