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A Fool Tells His Dream
In Fool Village in Hubei, the son of a family of fools dreams of saving China. A Fool Tells His Dream follows young reformers who travel, study abroad and finally build a utopian new state on an island, a remarkable political fantasy of 1904. It is a rare and fascinating Chinese utopia. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. Written as the empire was collapsing, it shows China meeting steamships, newspapers, foreign concessions and reform, and it is sharper and funnier than most readers expect. Very little of this extraordinary body of fiction has been translated, and it shows a China in rapid, painful and often absurd transformation.
