The English class / Ouyang Yu
- Bib ID:
- 4802301
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Ouyang, Yu, 1955-
- Description:
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- Yarraville, [Vic.] : Transit Lounge Publishing, 2010
- 394 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780980571783
- 0980571782
- Summary:
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At the end of the Cultural Revolution in China in the late 1970s Jing, an educated youth (zhishi qingnian) who has spent a few years as a peasant in the countryside, becomes a truck driver in a provincial shipyard. He manages to teach himself English in adverse circumstances while driving his truck, eventually passing the examination to get into the English Class at Donghu University. There, he meets with classmates from vastly different cultural backgrounds and falls in love with Deirdre, the estranged partner of Dr Wagner the English teacher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Chinese Australians -- China -- Fiction
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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