Bibliograph

Scratching the head of chairman Mao, Jonathan Tel

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Scratching the head of chairman Mao, Jonathan Tel

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Scratching the head of chairman Mao

Oclc number

1091238991

Responsibility statement

Jonathan Tel

Summary

"China is the center of the world, and the center of China is Beijing, and at the center of Beijing is a billionaire financier named Qin. As Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao opens, Qin is lying in state at his funeral, victim of a sudden and premature death. Moving back and forth in time, we meet a wide range of Chinese, all linked to Qin by a degree or two of separation: a property developer, a street artist, a prostitute, a fashion model, a spy, a thief, an expat lawyer, a muckraking journalist. By the end of this biting, post-post-modern cultural observation, the manner of Qin's death is revealed. Scratching the Head of Chairman Mao presents today's China in its full and fabulous complexity."--Page 4 of cover

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