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When Space Rocket Factory Number Two closes down in the small Chinese town of Shaoyang, it is the signal for the old culture to confront the new. Party Secretary Li cannot cope, and commits suicide, but not before daubing a series of slogans onto sheets of rice paper and hanging them outside his bedroom window (Our Leaders Are Drunk On The Taste Of Corruption reads one; The Party Officials Are Screwing Our Daughters, reads another).Those left behind have to clear up after him: Old Zhu has to keep Party Secretary Li¿s ashes in the bottom of his wardrobe. On the other side of the courtyard, their aria singing neighbour Madam Fan is temporarily silenced by the tragedy. Meanwhile Old Zhu¿s son, Da Shan, has returned from the city and fallen in love with not one but two childhood sweethearts.
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The Drink and Dream Teahouse is a historical romance set in a moribund rural town in contemporary China. Through the lives of its central characters, it chronicles the transition from a communist society to the uncertainties of the future. The characters are largely emblematic and accommodate traditional Chinese culture with emergent capitalist and Western ideas: Old Zhu, the keeper of the old communist faith and founder of the factory; Da Shah, his entrepreneurial son and part of the Tiananmen Square generation; Madam Fan, the local amateur opera singer and her daughter Peach.
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Autumn Cloud let out a long sigh. What terrible days. She and Party Secretary Li had worked hard to build China. Even though they were newlyweds, they hardly saw each other for days or sometimes weeks. He had been in charge of the Prostitute Re-education Centre and she had been working in the Political Press Office. Dreams of modernising the country had driven them on. It was like they had been married to the country.The momentous events in recent Chinese history which the novel spans are covered in the reminiscences of characters who battle to contain the confusion and power of such historical forces. At best, the prose is wistful and languorous and Hill has flashes of descriptive flair, a good eye for the occasional telling detail--though whether The Drink and Dream Teahouse realises its epic aspirations is an open question. --Neville Hoad
A compelling and very moving portrail of a community trying to find its way in an ever-changing world, and that’s something everyone can relate to. Excellent. -- Time Out
A direct and powerful novel portraying modern China with humour and affection -- New Statesman
Hill's decorously written tale of fraught romance amid social cataclysm is by turns entertaining, moving and amusing. -- Observer
If you have ever wondered what daily life in contemporary China might really be like, this will tell you more than a thousand travel books -- Sunday Times
Intelligent and interesting novel about the clash between Chinese communism and Western capitalism...focused exactly where it should be – in family life -- The Times
A direct and powerful novel portraying modern China with humour and affection -- New Statesman
Hill's decorously written tale of fraught romance amid social cataclysm is by turns entertaining, moving and amusing. -- Observer
If you have ever wondered what daily life in contemporary China might really be like, this will tell you more than a thousand travel books -- Sunday Times
Intelligent and interesting novel about the clash between Chinese communism and Western capitalism...focused exactly where it should be – in family life -- The Times
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0753813203
- ISBN 13 9780753813201
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- Number of pages324
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