LEADER 02871nam 22006374a 450 001 9910777467403321 005 20231005171457.0 010 $a0-231-50892-1 024 7 $a10.7312/li--12874 035 $a(CKB)1000000000445284 035 $a(EBL)909333 035 $a(OCoLC)826476586 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237337 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218356 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237337 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188786 035 $a(PQKB)10503905 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC909333 035 $a(DE-B1597)459062 035 $a(OCoLC)213304811 035 $a(OCoLC)979620117 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231508926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL909333 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183375 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL853905 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000445284 100 $a20021025d2003 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRetribution $ethe Jiling Chronicles /$fLi Yung-p'ing ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) 225 1 $aModern Chinese literature from Taiwan 311 0 $a0-231-12874-6 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tBook 1. White Dress --$tBook Two Empty Doors --$tBook Three Chaos in Heaven --$tBook Four Raining Flowers 330 $aRetribution opens with the raucous festivities surrounding the annual procession to honor the Bodhisattva Guanyin. Changsheng, the young wife of the local coffin maker Liu Laoshi, is raped while making an offering to Guanyin in the hope of increasing her chances of bearing a son. Changsheng hangs herself following the encounter, and Liu Laoshi exacts bloody vengeance on the rapist's own wife and favorite prostitute. This act of sexual violence and its retribution provide the narrative pivot around which is woven a web of interconnecting stories, whose characters and events provide divergent perspectives on the rape and its aftermath. The result is an unforgettable exploration of the intersections of sexual desire, sadism, folk belief, and the inexorable cycles of karmic retribution. 410 0$aModern Chinese literature from Taiwan. 606 $aRape$vFiction 606 $aShort stories, Chinese$vTranslations into English 607 $aChina$xSocial life and customs$vFiction 615 0$aRape 615 0$aShort stories, Chinese 676 $a895.1/352 700 $aLi$b Yongping$f1947-$01560468 701 $aGoldblatt$b Howard$f1939-$01523276 701 $aLin$b Sylvia Li-chun$01525383 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777467403321 996 $aRetribution$93826438 997 $aUNINA