Books by Mu Xin and Complete Book Reviews

Alexandra Monroe, Author, Mu Xin, Author, Mu, Author . Yale Univ. $55 (152p) ISBN 978-0-300-09075-8
Now in his mid-70s, Mu Xin is a reclusive Chinese émigré writer and painter, longtime resident in the Forest Hills section of Queens, N.Y., whose work is unfamiliar to most nonspecialists. Since very few of Mu Xin's voluminous writings
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Mu Xin, trans. from the Chinese by Toming Jun Liu. New Directions, $13.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1922-8
Characters occupy a haunting world of ambivalence and moral decay in Mu's English language debut, a collection about people unmoored by the changes that took place in 20th-century China. The author elides most of the horrors of WWII and the Cultural
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