Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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Dai Sijie

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Luo's Alarm Clock

Luo's alarm clock, which features a tiny rooster that crows when the alarm sounds, is a forbidden object. The alarm clock represents the bourgeois norms, such as timing the workday with a clock rather…

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