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To visit through these tales would be to mix a landscape of spectacular beauty and fantastic cruelty, where beautifully wrought areas beguile in the same period that functions of amazing violence frighten, where ethical certainties are broken, where objectives are subverted. It's no surprise that Yu Hua's tales caused a sensation once they first appeared in the 1980s. His work presents an enhanced and frequently troubling innovation in the Chinese literary history, similar to the misinformation of modernists like Kafka, Kawabata, Borges, and Robbe-Grillet, but drawing motivation from many traces of standard Chinese story too. This is actually the first assortment of short fiction by Yu Hua to surface in English.