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Source: Bruce-humes.com (9/28/17)
“The Mongol Would-be Self-Immolator”：An excerpt from “Mongolia,” a novel by Guo Xuebo
The reason I mention this is that, to the best of my knowledge, self immolation (自焚) is a largely taboo subject in Chinese fiction today. This text — penned by Guo Xuebo 郭雪波, an ethnic Mongol raised in Inner Mongolia — not only poke funs at the omnipresent “stability maintenance” policy, it actually deals head on with the paranoia surrounding the topic of self-immolation.
Bruce Humes <turklit4china@gmail.com>
www.bruce-humes.com