Small Well Lane: A Contemporary Chinese Play and Oral History

by Longyun Li, Hong Jiang, Li Longyun, et al.

Li Longyun's five-act play, Small Well Lane (Xiaojing hutong), is a spoken drama published in Beijing in 1981. With a cast of nearly thirty characters of different social roles and individual persona, the play provides a vivid sense of how a group of working class Beijing residents living in a courtyard compound in a back alley, or hutong, named "Small Well Lane" experienced China's revolution from 1949 to 1980. It beautifully records the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472067958
• ISBN13: 9780472067954
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"