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...Yong Jing in Northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through labor. Their...
...their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically correct and resourceful?if grossly inaccurate?response...
...Luo was not in the country for the publication of the academic awards...
During college, Luo also took off a semester to work for an HIV/AIDS prevention program in South Africa. Luo will return to the US this fall to attend Johns Hopkins medical school...
...doctor, I hope to care for people living with HIV, as well as work on AIDS education and prevention in both the US and the developing world," Luo wrote in an e-mail message...