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Gotta track down this one hundred best works of twentieth-century Chinese fiction list compiled by Asia Weekly that's mentioned in the afterword.

I need this to be a movie or a mini-series or something pretty pretty please.

I wish more works followed this one's footsteps in treating settings like living entities.

Here only one sound had an identity. The lord of all sounds—and that was the sound of the bell tower ringing. It overrides all the other sounds and voices, which form a bed of echoes reverberating through the night. The echoes are the finest strokes of a huge painting that constitutes the deep thought of the night. This sound has a buoyancy that lifts you up and knocks you around as if you were riding on a bed of...

I love editions that advertise their publisher's back catalogue, especially the type that includes exciting stuff like The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai. I'm going to have to remember to come back to this Weatherhead Books on Asia business.

I was trying to decide between this and Mean Spirit, but the decision proved impossible to make. Good thing I haven't yet hit my lit multitasking limit.