HIGH TEST: A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES features five linked stories of lives in flux in the fast-changing landscape of contemporary China. From migrant workers in coastal factory towns to a nouveau-riche millionaire immigrating to the West, this collection presents a mosaic portrait of characters teetering in the wake of China's sweeping economic and social transformations of the past three decades. Through closely-focused first-person points of view and crisis-inducing circumstances that fragment the individual identity, these characters negotiate the understood boundaries of culture, gender, and class. Their grappling with the changing rules of familial relations, the complications of money, the expectations of gender, and the ever-shifting social definitions converge to make this collection a portrayal of the universal search for individual identity and equilibrium. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Fall Semester, 2012. / October 29, 2012. / China, Fiction, Short stories / Includes bibliographical references. / Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Professor Directing Dissertation; Feng Lan, University Representative; Robert Olen Butler, Committee Member; Daniel Vitkus, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_183330 |
| Contributors | Xiong, Wei (authoraut), Stuckey-French, Elizabeth (professor directing dissertation), Lan, Feng (university representative), Butler, Robert Olen (committee member), Vitkus, Daniel (committee member), Department of English (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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