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Original Title:	Grass Soup
ISBN:	1567920306 (ISBN13: 9781567920307)
Edition Language:	English

Grass Soup

Zhang Xianliang

Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 3.72 | 129 Users | 19 Reviews

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Title	:	Grass Soup
Author	:	Zhang Xianliang
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	October 4th 1995 by David R. Godine Publisher (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Cultural. China. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Asia. Asian Literature. Chinese Literature

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Zhang Xianliang, one of China's greatest living writers, spent twenty-two years in Chinese prisons and labor camps until his "rehabilitation" in 1979. Through most of those years he kept a diary of his experiences. Because any detail would have meant the diary's destruction and Zhang's execution, the entries were curt and cryptic; sometimes entire days were condensed into two or three words. This is a frightening portrait of how a major civilization can bring itself to its knees by mass complicity, told with a deft matter-of-factness that only highlights the horror.

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Ratings: 3.72 From 129 Users | 19 Reviews

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I tried to like this book but couldnt. The period of Chinas history covered in the book interests and saddens me. Autobiographies and memoirs are among my favorite genres. So I should have been drawn into Xianliangs story, but that never happened. I got through the first fifty pages or so, flipped to the last twenty pages, read them, and considered myself done. I cannot complain about the book itself; I simply did not care for the writers style.

Provocative but sad. Set in a Chinese concentration camp.

"Grass Soup" is an extraordinary little book dealing with the infamous Chinese "labour camps" during the worst years of the Communist regime, when the horrors of Bejing rhymed with the ones of Pyongyang. At that time, Zhang Xianliang was barely 23 years old but already labelled as a right-wing extremist and an enemy of the Chinese people. Zhang was an "intellectual", a pernicious, disgusting semi-human sub-specie created by the evil influence of the American imperialism in the socialist Chinese

This non-fiction account of the Chinese writer, Zhang Xianliang's twenty-two years in Chinese prisons & labor camps until he was "rehabilitated" in 1979 is amazing. Condemned as an "intellectual. "The story is from diaries that during most of the years in prison he kept. With his potential for being executed for the diary, it is beyond me to think how he wrote it in the first place and then was able to keep it a secret and then write this book & live! A look into how a major country

This book is like a diary/memoir. This story took place during the Chinese Revolution, and because it is written in a form of a diary/memoir some texts can be viewed as the "dark times".

In 1958 at the age of 23 Xianliang was imprisoned for being a poet and an intellectual. Two years later he was allowed to keep a small notebook and a pen, and began to keep a diary. Almost all his notes and camp records were destroyed in front of him but the authorities allowed him to keep his notebook, from that he wrote of his experiences in the camp, deciphering the cryptic notes.It is a heart wrenching tale. He was treated harshly, like all the others in the camp, but never brutally. They

Thought police Mao style, 1950's & 1960's. Re-education work camps. It's not great literature, but even so, Zhang's descriptions of the political mind games & austerity stay with you. I'm left thinking about grass as food and how any kind of extreme ideology brings out the worst in humanity. 50cents 17//1/14