Beijing Story - Brossura

Tongzhi, Beijing

Brossura

ISBN 10: 8494519913 ISBN 13: 9788494519918

Casa editrice: Asociación Cultural Amistades Particulares, Libros libres, 2016

Riassunto

Lan Yu, a college student from rural China who attends university in Beijing, decides to prostitute himself when he is short of money. Thus, he meets Handong, a young entrepreneur enriched by his connections and by the prevailing corruption. Used to buying everything, even love, Handong will find that Lan Yu, the shy and handsome teenager, has very different personal values. Despite their differences, passion drags them into a relationship that will profoundly change their lives. As a backdrop, the city of Beijing during the late eighties, ruthless and inhuman, rife with political corruption; and the strong Confucian moral that discourages most Chinese gay men from attempting to escape heterosexual marriage. This is the most read gay novel in China in the last twenty years. It appeared anonymously on the internet in 1996, avoiding censorship by the authorities, and has finally become a model and reference for what has been called "tongzhi" (comrade) literature, which is the name given in China to literature of homoerotic content. The author was forced to seek anonymity because he not only dared to publish a work of socially awkward content, but explicit sex scenes and political criticism describing the 1989 student protests and the slaughter in Tiananmen Square. In 2001, the openly gay director Stanley Kwan adapted Beijing Story and released it as the film "Lan Yu". It was an immediate commercial success and won several awards in film festivals. Now, twenty years after its underground publication on the internet, we want to provide the format and place that a novel like this deserves: in print and on the shelves of a bookstore. It is an honor to present, to the general public, the first and most important "tongzhi" novel ever published.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Asociación Cultural Amistades Particulares, Libros libres
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 8494519913
• ISBN 13: 9788494519918
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 140
• Redattore: Sanrune Carlos