Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the
subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream of
Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke''s most important novel
to date. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply
moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling scandal
in contemporary China. As the book opens, the town directors,
looking for a way to lift their village from poverty, decide to
open a dozen blood-plasma collection stations, with the hope of
draining the townspeople of their blood and selling it to villages
near and far. Although the citizens prosper in the short run, the
rampant blood-selling leads to an outbreak of AIDS and huge loss of
life. Narrated by the dead grandson of the village head and written
in finely crafted, affecting prose, the novel presents a powerful
absurdist allegory of the moral vacuum at the heart of
communist-capitalist China as it traces the life and death of an
entire community. Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in
eastern China, Dream of Ding Village is the result of three years
of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a
well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small
village decimated by HIVAIDS as a result of unregulated blood
selling. Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken
or reparations paid. Dream of Ding Village focuses on one family,
destroyed when one son rises to the top of the Party pile as he
exploits the situation, while another son is infected and dies. The
result is a passionate and steely critique of the rate at which
China is developing—and what happens to those who get in the
way.
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