Loose: A Wild HistoryLoose' takes place around the turn of this century, partly in Australia and partly in China and its provinces, where Ouyang Yu's brother Ouyang Ming, a famed Falun Gong practitioner who was tortured to death, enters the story. The novel combines fiction with non-fiction, poetry with literary criticism, diary with life writing, with multiple stories weaving in between, told from different points of view by different characters. The story evolves during the heady days of the end of the millennium when the new sexual revolution Chinese-style erupted, when political repression went side by side with burgeoning artistic freedom, and poetic experimentation took a sharp postmodernist turn as poets swung away from Western resources to a rich past and richer present. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
afternoon asked Australia Australian dollars back Beijing book bought called centre Changzhou China Chinese language Chinese poetry Chinese yuan city computer country Cultural Revolution culture cunt diary dinner email English entry everything eyes face Falun Gong feel fiction find finished Foodstar found friend fucking girl grey happened heard home Huanggang Huangzhou Hubei interesting know last left literary living long look love lunch magazine mean Melbourne memory Ming mobile phone money morning name never night notebook novel number Otherland Ouyang Yu photo place poem poet Professor published read realised remember restaurant right river Shanghai Shenzhen shit sitting smoking someone song sort stop story street take talking taxi tell things think thought titled today toilet told took translation turned Uncle voice want watching Western white window woman women words writing written wrote Wuhan xiao jie yesterday yuan Zhenjiang