Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction, Under the Red Flag features twelve stories which take place during China's Cultural Revolution--stories which display the earnestness and grandeur of human folly and, in a larger sense, form a moral history of a time and a place.
About the Author
Ha Jin was born in Liaoning, China and served six years in the People's Liberation Army before emigrating to the United States in 1985. He currently teaches at Emory University in Atlanta.
Table of Contents
In broad daylight -- Man to be -- Sovereignty -- Winds and clouds over a funeral -- The richest man -- New arrival -- Emperor -- Fortune -- Taking a husband -- Again, the spring breeze blew -- Resurrection -- A decade.