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China in Ten Words is a hybrid book: part Cultural-Revolution-for-Beginners, part memoir-with-political-context.
This is one of the few times that I would say, it's probably better to read the text version rather than the audio version if you can help it. The reader, Don Hagen, reads it all with this detached, faintly-amused tone, which really affected how I experienced the stories. This isn't to say that Yu Hua's tone was incredibly serious, but it just felt... I don't know. More distant somehow ...more
This is one of the few times that I would say, it's probably better to read the text version rather than the audio version if you can help it. The reader, Don Hagen, reads it all with this detached, faintly-amused tone, which really affected how I experienced the stories. This isn't to say that Yu Hua's tone was incredibly serious, but it just felt... I don't know. More distant somehow ...more
Jan 01, 2013
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