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The Neighbour Girl's Words
During the Boxer uprising of 1900, a young man travels north to help famine victims and sees war, looting and the flight of the court. The Neighbour Girl's Words is a vivid eyewitness-style novel of the Boxer year. It is a rare portrait of 1900 from a Chinese point of view. 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.
