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"The most common word in Chinese, perhaps, a ubiquitous syllable people utter and hear all the time, which is supposed to mean good. But what is hao in this world, where good books are burned, good people condemned, meanness considered a good trait, violence good conduct? People say hao when their eyes are marred with suspicion and dread. They say hao when they are tattered inside." By turns reflective and visceral, the stories in Hao examine the ways in which women can be silenced as they grapple with sexism and racism, and how they find their own language to define their experience.In "Gold Mountain," a young mother hides above a ransacked store during the San Francisco anti-Chinese riot of 1877. In "A Drawer," an illiterate mother invents a language through drawing.



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ye chun

Ye Chun/?? is the author of two books of poetry, Travel Over Water (2005) and Lantern Puzzle (2015) , winner of Berkshire Prize, and a novel in Chinese, ???????(Peach Tree in the Sea) , which was published by ??????? / People's Literature Publishing House in 2011. She has also published three books of translations, Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi, shortlisted for the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award, and Long River: Poems by Yang Jian (co-translator) , and ????????????. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, she teaches at Providence College. Visit her at www.yechunauthor.com.



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