Yellow Gold
Published on 31. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-83890-606-1 (ISBN)
Description
A dentist's girlfriend with cavities, an elderly career criminal with no-one to turn to but the police, a dismissed housemaid on the way to a back-alley abortion clinic and a crane operator who's never had a man treat her right, for whom gold is cashed-out love.
These are the stories of the people from China's liminal sprawl, who seek a fresh start beyond a neglected countryside that's no longer home and a metropolis indifferent to their existence. As each small cruelty only compounds their humiliation, will their hopes pan out, or are the gates to a new future rusted shut?
These are the stories of the people from China's liminal sprawl, who seek a fresh start beyond a neglected countryside that's no longer home and a metropolis indifferent to their existence. As each small cruelty only compounds their humiliation, will their hopes pan out, or are the gates to a new future rusted shut?
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
ACA Publishing Limited
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
258 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83890-606-1 (9781838906061)
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Yi Zhou is a Chinese novelist born in Xi'an in 1972, and a national committee member of the China Writers Association. He has won the Lu Xun Literary Prize as well as various other literary prizes, and has been selected for inclusion in the 20 Young Chinese Writers in the New Century list. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian and other foreign languages. Hu Zongfeng is the most prolific literary translator of his home province, Shaanxi. He serves as president of the Shaanxi Translators Association and director of the Edgar and Helen Snow Studies Center. He is academic dean of the School of Foreign Languages and director of the Shaanxi Research Institute of Culture and Translation at Xijing University. Robin Gilbank is originally from the North Yorkshire coast. He is now a professor of the School of Foreign Languages, Xijing University. With Hu Zongfeng, he launched the "Shaanxi Stories" series to promote the work of local authors in English translation. He is the author of An Englishman in the Land of Qin (2018) and Exploring China (2018), with the latter being longlisted for the Lu Xun Prize.