A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang games through the epic conflict with

through the epic conflict with Mark Antony and Cleopatra

and his eventual encounter with Kurtz

Going beyond the traditionalist approaches that resist feminist readings of Hanyo

With chapters on dumplings and pickles and ferments as well

thought-provoking meditations

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang games through the epic conflict withQianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a callthere is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and hes asking for her. This man isnt the Ba Qianze remembers: he is much older, more fragile, and worst of all, haunted by a half forgotten prophecy. While Qianze wrestles with what she owes this near stranger, Ba begins telling