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Beijing Comrades: A Novel by [Bei Tong, Scott E. Myers, Petrus Liu]

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“One of the most significant Chinese novels of our time.” —The New York Times
 
“While 
Beijing Comrades provides a meaningful excavation of homophobia and daily life in a rapidly changing China, it is ultimately a traditional story of forbidden love in all the most classic, wonderful, and devastating ways.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
 
Beijing Comrades is both a valuable piece of global gay history and a political phenomenon . . . But the universal themes, and the deeply personal rendering of the story, endear the characters to us in ways quite distinct from the book’s importance as a monument of literature and queer theory.” —Lambda Literary Review
 
“The novel moves seamlessly from humor to frantic passion to sorrow, and Myers’s use of language captures these disparate emotions perfectly.” —
LA Review of Books
 
“The book falls significantly higher on the erotica spectrum than 
Fifty Shades of Gray. . . . Created on a website, crowd-sourced in serial, Beijing Comrades is the people’s public fantasy of intimacy.” —The Millions
 
“A melancholic parable in which desire and self-interest reconfigure revolutionary ideals and unbridled investments in a neoliberal new world order.” —David L. Eng, author of 
The Feeling of Kinship

About the Author

Bei-Tong is the anonymous author of Beijing Comrades. The pseudonymous author, whose real-world identity has been a subject of debate since the story was first published on a gay Chinese website over a decade ago, is known variously as Beijing Comrade, Beijing Tongzhi, Xiao He, and Miss Wang.

Scott E. Myers is a translator of Chinese who focuses on contemporary queer fiction from the PRC. He holds a BA in philosophy from Hampshire College and master’s degrees in Comparative Literature from New York University, in Chinese Translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. A former union organizer with experience in China's workers' rights movement, his translation of the diary of a retail worker in China appears in the book
Walmart in China (ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2011). Recently, he has been translating the work of avant-garde poet and novelist Mu Cao. His translations of Mu’s poems have appeared in Epiphany journal (Winter 2014), and he is currently translating Mu’s 2003 novel Outcast. Originally from California, he is a Mandarin teacher at a high school in Denver, Colorado.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01BO2IT9G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Feminist Press at CUNY (February 22, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 22, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1293 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 405 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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