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       Anonymous posts on 4/17/2007 12:00:55 AM

What a waste of time reading this book was.


       katie posts on 10/25/2006 11:29:25 PM

i need 3 analysis of a quote out of this book for homework!! will anyone help me?


       posts on 10/11/2006 9:40:10 PM

im supposed to read the whole book and give the class an oral presentation on monday. but the problem is that i didnt read the book! what am i suppose to do?!?!?!?!





       posts on 4/10/2006 12:07:17 AM

I have a same background and a contemporary as the author. I used to be intoxicated with the Balzac's novels. Reading Mr. Dai's novel brought me back to the dark and savage times in China (1966-1976). At that time the southlands and southlands teenagers became victims from Mao's politics. They had no school to go and no any recreation. The only way to quench their thirst is to read the banned novels which are west classic in Chinese translated. In this novel the details and particulars described vividly and exquisitely. By my experience, when I was too young to understand the real world at that time, I dreamed in my ideal realm, far away from the real world. I confess that the power of the west literature influence on me for a long time in my life. . Therefore I am not wondering that the wrenching conclusion: seamstress pursuits a beautiful dream of her city. At the end I would like to recommend the novel as deserved.


       becci posts on 4/6/2005 11:08:10 PM

i loved the book but what was the point and what did the boys accomplished


       luke posts on 3/15/2005 9:41:51 PM

Analise the ways in which Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress communicates a particular set of ideas about, and perspectives of, the Cultrual Revolution in China


       amy posts on 2/7/2005 3:25:57 PM

can someone help me with putting all of the events that happen to the little seamstress in order? i am confused





       Lincoln posts on 1/20/2005 12:27:39 PM

How does the author's use of point-of-view add or take away from the story? It seems logical that the story be told by one of the boys, as it is their thirst for and discovery of the books that propells the plot. What if the headman told the story? What if the point-of-view was third person omniscient?


       anonymous posts on 1/6/2005 8:05:32 PM

1/6. im wondering if any of you could give me some questions about this book. not too hard, not too easy. my group is suppose to make one up for the final for english! thanks in advance





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