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...Jian Wan, a literature grad student whose transformation is at the center of the novel. Rational to the point of detachment, yet endowed with the seeds of a turbulent inner life, he's an ideal if slightly tiresome mouthpiece for Jin's realist voice. When his mentor, Professor Yang, suffers an "unsettling" stroke, Jian dutifully cares for him but worries that the job will interfere with his upcoming exams. Unlike his passionate professor, who suffered in the Cultural Revolution for declaring that Goethe was a great poet, Jian barely cares for literature, studying only so he can secure a place...
...Yang is one of the crazed. His damaged mind is "like a pressure cooker that is so full that the safety valve is blocked up ... the only way out is to explode." Perversely liberated by his injury, Yang erupts in a rage of truth and insanity, one moment cursing a system that regards scholars like him as "just a piece of meat on a cutting board", and the next admitting to a shameful desire to be an official, to be the knife that cuts. He sings fragments of revolutionary songs in praise of Chairman Mao, then discourses on a passage...
...Yang's madness, Jian begins to find clarity of mind. Yang's caustic torments terrorize his mild student?and gradually cause Jian to question the career that has been set before him, the mentor he thought he knew and the world in which he lives. He's not the only one. While Jian sinks into depression, wondering whether he should bother sitting for his exams and doom himself to a barren life "as a clerk in a workshop", news of a student gathering in Beijing arrives through BBC radio broadcasts and Meimei's letters from the restive capital. Jian wants...
...hasn’t been bad,” said Jane Yang ’03, a former Widener employee...
...don’t think there is much more for me to do after the end of October,” said Fu, who is “not optimistic” that Yang will be released...