These acerbic essays, collected from Perry Links decadeslong career as a noted Sinologist, reveal the depth of his attachment to China and his willingness to squarely face unpleasant truths about the many ways in which ordinary Chinese people have suffered from the selfserving, erratic, and often disastrous leadership of the Communist Party of China.Links essays touch on politics, society, economy, literature, and art, but their primary focus is on the thoughts, feelings, and values of Chinese people. He lays out his values as he explains how, like many of his Chinese friends, he began with a nave attraction to socialist ideals only to eventually feel disgust at the cynical betrayal of not only those ideals but even gardenvariety ethics. His writing probes the ways comrades in the ruling regime have ruthlessly clung to and pursued the one value whose preeminence has never been in question political power.The Anaconda in the Chandelier includes essays on Links day job interests in Chinese literature, popular culture, and language teaching at Princeton University. He also offers intellectual tribute to his teachersboth classroom teachers and several whose writing taught him how to see beneath the surfaces of things.

Binding: Paperback;287 pages; Publisher: Paul Dry Books, Inc; Classification: JPS; Weight: 538 g; Dimensions: 230 x 156 x 28

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