Ballad of the HimalayasAuthor :
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Published : Saturday 30 July 2011
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In this collection of short stories, Ma Yuan tells enigmatic tales about an eponymous narratorâ?Ts travels in Tibet that question the very meaning of â?ostoryâ?? and our assumptions about meaning itself. Yang Xiaobinâ?Ts introduction explores Ma Yuanâ?Ts role as Chinaâ?Ts first postmodernist author. Ma Yuanâ?Ts stories and novellas develop metafiction in synergy with Tibetan Buddhismâ?Ts notion of the cosmos as an illusion. Ma Yuan is of interest for his cloaked allusions to the tortured relationship between Chinese and Tibetans. Where government propaganda portrays the Chinese as the liberators of Tibet, â?oVagabond Soulâ?? depicts Chinese economic exploitation of Tibetansâ?"the Chinese narrator bribes a Tibetan beggar to steal rare a rare old Tibetan coin mold for the narrator to mold counterfeits. A Fictionâ?? is a tongue-in-cheek allegory of the Chinese fascination with â?oprimitiveâ?? Tibet: a Chinese narratorâ?Ts love affair with a nubile Tibetan leper.An aficionado both of western postmodernist fiction and of traditional Chinese Daoism, Ma Yuan portrays the disorienting interaction of traditional Tibetan life and Chinese â?omodernizationâ?? so as to render absurd the rational premises of what we usually call â?othe modern world.â??
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