Mao Badges and Rocket Parts
Robert Macfarlane, 23 August 2001
“... and became known as paoshu, or ‘running-books’. Early on in his story, the unnamed narrator of Dai Sijie’s charming novella Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress very briefly explains all this: a sign that the book has been written for Western audiences unfamiliar with recent Chinese history. It is 1971, the high noon of the Cultural ... ”
