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200 10$aRetribution$b[electronic resource] $ethe Jiling Chronicles /$fLi Yung-p'ing ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin
210   $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (255 p.)
225 1 $aModern Chinese literature from Taiwan
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327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tBook 1. White Dress --$tBook Two Empty Doors --$tBook Three Chaos in Heaven --$tBook Four Raining Flowers
330   $aRetribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution provide the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters and events provide divergent perspectives on the rape and its aftermath. The result is an unforgettable exploration of the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief, and the inexorable cycles of karmic retribution.
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