Usually when you read a story set in China you I absolutely loved this book and how it does not just serve as an interesting piece of literature but also as a meditation on the ideas of country, nationality, and a citizen's place in the larger scale.
Whether its a young husband, a college professor, carrying a huge burden of unassuageable guilt, or a prison inmate who mistakenly hitched his aspirations to the wrong person.
Weng Collection, published in James Cahill, The Distant Mountains: Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Dynasty, 1570 — 1644, New York: Weatherhill, 1982, p.