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Saboteur
Ha Jin's “Saboteur” is the story of a university lecturer in China who is arrested and accused of being a saboteur, through no fault of his own, after being attacked by two police officers. The story is an examination of the abuses of police power and judicial authority, and the distrust of intellectuals by the state.
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Published January 1, 1996
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Ha Jin
63 books850 followersHa Jin is the pen name of Jin Xuefei, a novelist, poet, short story writer, and Professor of English at Boston University.Ha Jin writes in English about China, a political decision post-Tiananmen Square.
Ha Jin grew up in mainland China and served in the People’s Liberation Army in his teens for five years. After leaving the army, he worked for three years at a railroad company in a remote northeastern city, Jiamusi, and then went to college in Harbin, majoring in English. He has published in English ten novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a book of essays, and a biography of Li Bai. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ha Jin is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in English and Creative Writing at Boston University, and he has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His writing has been translated into more than thirty languages. Ha Jin’s novel The Woman Back from Moscow was published by Other Press in 2023.
Ha Jin grew up in mainland China and served in the People’s Liberation Army in his teens for five years. After leaving the army, he worked for three years at a railroad company in a remote northeastern city, Jiamusi, and then went to college in Harbin, majoring in English. He has published in English ten novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a book of essays, and a biography of Li Bai. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ha Jin is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in English and Creative Writing at Boston University, and he has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His writing has been translated into more than thirty languages. Ha Jin’s novel The Woman Back from Moscow was published by Other Press in 2023.
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August 4, 2023
An ironic, grim and scathing parable illuminating the proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold - and not unlikely sickening ugly even if it comes in the sophisticated, seemingly innocuous and hot form of a bowl of black tea or tree-ear soup.
The story can be found here.
(***1/2)
The story can be found here.
(***1/2)
August 7, 2023
Sabotage is generally supposed to be a deliberate action which has a purpose to weaken a government, organization or establishment in general. The definition may include all revolutionaries if we look at it in a broad sense, and without context. We know that there is an order to be maintained in society to keep things under control but how it is maintained. Those who are in power are often assigned (at time they assign it themselves) the responsibility to maintain order since there is no place for chaos, how about anarchy then. Perhaps anarchy is too ideal a system to maintain in any society so we can easily do away with it.
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Often, it is the state which finds itself at the behest of society to maintain it in harmony. However, there is always a trade-off between individual choices and freedom of people and the requirement of the state to behave and act in a certain desired way. Nonetheless, the state supersedes everything in a typical social structure and crushes all these silly (un)wanted desires of individuality and (so called) freedom, and perhaps the structure becomes even more rigid when it comes to communism. The state has all the tools to establish and ensure order in its society, these tools may include arms, ammunition, legal framework, rules, media and even art and culture too, for we have seen that at times art and culture are also reduced to just be propaganda of the state.
However, there are always some fools who have problems with the omnipotent state and muster the courage of their beings to challenge the divinity authority of the state, of course, to disturb its order, and these idiots are called Saboteur. The elements of the state are so sharp and precise that they may assess and identify the intentions of these saboteur just by observing their body languages, as if the holy act of serving the state endows with some outwardly powers to read the consciousness of those who think against the state. More often than not, the revolutionaries spring up out of these fools who are mad about their principles so much so that they are not even afraid of the vigor and capacity of the state.
The greatest revolutions in the history of humanity have arrived on the stage of world because of these insanely mad people, their minds act as wombs which give birth to colossal uprisings. Saboteur here deals with an ordinary man who appears to be simple from the appearance, but the state machinery applies its reason and acumen to stealthily unravel his motives, hidden deep in his consciousness. The man feels as if he has been robbed off his life, he might have carved out carefully with his bride. A man often feels mugged in such a situation in which he could not assimilate the surroundings and find himself helpless to make sense of his life. The seed of injustice often takes shape in the soul of such a vulnerable and feeble man, and sprouts in the form of resentment and rebellion; but, as we know, the worm of irony often bites humanity, the vulnerability of his soul often gives in to what he fights against.
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July 20, 2023
The last short story from The Art of The Short story read together with The Short Story Club
Ha Jin is a Chinese novelist, poet, short story writer, and Professor of English at Boston University. He writes in English. The story is set in a fictional city sometime after the Cultural Revolution in China. The main character is subject to an injustice and ends up in prison innocent. He is appalled and furious by the treatment he receives and has no success fighting for his rights. It is a dystopian tale of a totalitarian regime and I though it will get 4* until the end of the story. The final MC's act was weird, I have to say.
Ha Jin is a Chinese novelist, poet, short story writer, and Professor of English at Boston University. He writes in English. The story is set in a fictional city sometime after the Cultural Revolution in China. The main character is subject to an injustice and ends up in prison innocent. He is appalled and furious by the treatment he receives and has no success fighting for his rights. It is a dystopian tale of a totalitarian regime and I though it will get 4* until the end of the story. The final MC's act was weird, I have to say.
October 27, 2023
This short story is set in China shortly after the Cultural Revolution. It tackles themes of injustice, abuse of power, trumped-up charges, and the desire for vengeance that results from them.
We follow a newlywed couple, Mr. Chiu, a university lecturer, and his young bride. We watch them having lunch and preparing to return home after their honeymoon.
Two railroad policemen are sitting at another table, chatting and laughing. What follows is a quarrel between Mr. Chiu and the policemen. Some other people witness the scene.
Soon after the main character is arrested and accused of "disrupting public order." The authorities want him to admit his so-called guilt. Mr. Chiu tries to prove his innocence by pointing to the real culprits who violated the order but to no avail. Police officers quickly make him understand that they are not above fabricating evidence.
The ending was quite different from what I was expecting. Why did the protagonist choose to act in the way he did? Which factors motivated him to become a saboteur?
After the experience that he had been forced to undergo at the police station, Mr. Chiu was full of rage and sought revenge. He considered himself humiliated and terribly mistreated.
He badly needed to find some way to let off steam.
We see here a law-abiding and somewhat idealistic man turn into a criminal. A victim becomes a perpetrator who takes the lives of innocent people. His revenge is blind. It does not target those who abused and mocked him.
In this lies a bitter irony. Violence breeds violence. Evil generates evil dragging more and more people into a vicious circle. When equality before the law exists only on paper, one injustice often leads to another.
Although I was not hit by this story, I did like it. It was short yet impactful.
We follow a newlywed couple, Mr. Chiu, a university lecturer, and his young bride. We watch them having lunch and preparing to return home after their honeymoon.
Two railroad policemen are sitting at another table, chatting and laughing. What follows is a quarrel between Mr. Chiu and the policemen. Some other people witness the scene.
Soon after the main character is arrested and accused of "disrupting public order." The authorities want him to admit his so-called guilt. Mr. Chiu tries to prove his innocence by pointing to the real culprits who violated the order but to no avail. Police officers quickly make him understand that they are not above fabricating evidence.
The ending was quite different from what I was expecting. Why did the protagonist choose to act in the way he did? Which factors motivated him to become a saboteur?
After the experience that he had been forced to undergo at the police station, Mr. Chiu was full of rage and sought revenge. He considered himself humiliated and terribly mistreated.
He badly needed to find some way to let off steam.
We see here a law-abiding and somewhat idealistic man turn into a criminal. A victim becomes a perpetrator who takes the lives of innocent people. His revenge is blind. It does not target those who abused and mocked him.
In this lies a bitter irony. Violence breeds violence. Evil generates evil dragging more and more people into a vicious circle. When equality before the law exists only on paper, one injustice often leads to another.
Although I was not hit by this story, I did like it. It was short yet impactful.
July 13, 2023
Initially, I found the cold detachment of the main character, compounded by the plain prose rather unengaging. Then a trivial incident becomes a clear injustice that roused my indignation, as it did Mr Chiu’s, and my interest.
It’s set in the fictional Muji City, apparently some years after the Cultural Revolution and Mao’s death (1976), but well before the publication date (2000).
It’s horribly familiar from fictional dystopias and real authoritarian regimes.
It feels predictable.
Until it isn’t.
The short final paragraph is shocking for its unexpectedness and for what it contains.
I didn’t read it as dark humour or satire, but as a tragedy: a powerful portrayal of how lies and corruption of all kinds infect those around.
Image: A cup of tea seems so restful, doesn't it? Not necessarily. (Source)
See also
• Jung Chan’s Wild Swans, which I reviewed HERE
• Mo Yan’s Garlic Ballads, which I reviewed HERE
• Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14 (North Korea), which I reviewed HERE
• Orwell’s 1984, which I reviewed HERE.
• Kafka’s The Trial, which I reviewed HERE
Short story club
I reread this as the last story in The Art of the Short Story, by Dana Gioia, from which I read one story a week with The Short Story Club, starting 2 May 2022.
You can read this story here.
You can join the group here. We’ll be starting a new anthology in September.
It’s set in the fictional Muji City, apparently some years after the Cultural Revolution and Mao’s death (1976), but well before the publication date (2000).
It’s horribly familiar from fictional dystopias and real authoritarian regimes.
It feels predictable.
Until it isn’t.
The short final paragraph is shocking for its unexpectedness and for what it contains.
I didn’t read it as dark humour or satire, but as a tragedy: a powerful portrayal of how lies and corruption of all kinds infect those around.
Image: A cup of tea seems so restful, doesn't it? Not necessarily. (Source)
See also
• Jung Chan’s Wild Swans, which I reviewed HERE
• Mo Yan’s Garlic Ballads, which I reviewed HERE
• Blaine Harden’s Escape from Camp 14 (North Korea), which I reviewed HERE
• Orwell’s 1984, which I reviewed HERE.
• Kafka’s The Trial, which I reviewed HERE
Short story club
I reread this as the last story in The Art of the Short Story, by Dana Gioia, from which I read one story a week with The Short Story Club, starting 2 May 2022.
You can read this story here.
You can join the group here. We’ll be starting a new anthology in September.
July 9, 2023
5★
“Mr. Chiu and his bride were having lunch in the square before Muji Train Station,
. . .
As they were talking, the stout policeman at the next table stood up and threw a bowl of tea in their direction. Both Mr. Chiu's and his bride's sandals were wet instantly.”
Why? Well may you ask. Needless to say, it will be Mr. Chiu in the wrong, not the policeman. Mr. Chiu has recently had acute hepatitis and is still recovering, so he’s not at his best. When he is accused of disrupting the peace, he argues, not violently, but with some force. He has, after all, taught at university. He’s no simple peasant they can round up.
"Comrade policeman, your duty is to keep order, but you purposely tortured us common citizens. Why violate the law you are supposed to enforce?" As Mr. Chiu was speaking, dozens of people began gathering around.”
They slap on the handcuffs and take him off to jail. He is not tortured, but he’s in a can’t-win position. The satisfying ending is worth the few minutes it will take you to read this.
It was first published in “The Antioch Review” in 1996, and I can see several discussions about it online.
You can download a PDF of this story here:
https://english101490.files.wordpress...
This is another good read from the Goodreads Short Story Club which you can join and then follow the discussions for each story. There’s no requirement to participate, but the conversations are always interesting.
The Short Story Club
“Mr. Chiu and his bride were having lunch in the square before Muji Train Station,
. . .
As they were talking, the stout policeman at the next table stood up and threw a bowl of tea in their direction. Both Mr. Chiu's and his bride's sandals were wet instantly.”
Why? Well may you ask. Needless to say, it will be Mr. Chiu in the wrong, not the policeman. Mr. Chiu has recently had acute hepatitis and is still recovering, so he’s not at his best. When he is accused of disrupting the peace, he argues, not violently, but with some force. He has, after all, taught at university. He’s no simple peasant they can round up.
"Comrade policeman, your duty is to keep order, but you purposely tortured us common citizens. Why violate the law you are supposed to enforce?" As Mr. Chiu was speaking, dozens of people began gathering around.”
They slap on the handcuffs and take him off to jail. He is not tortured, but he’s in a can’t-win position. The satisfying ending is worth the few minutes it will take you to read this.
It was first published in “The Antioch Review” in 1996, and I can see several discussions about it online.
You can download a PDF of this story here:
https://english101490.files.wordpress...
This is another good read from the Goodreads Short Story Club which you can join and then follow the discussions for each story. There’s no requirement to participate, but the conversations are always interesting.
The Short Story Club
December 30, 2023
They say 'revenge is a dish best served cold'... but once in a while, the hotter the food, the sweeter the taste of reprisal!
In this clever short story, the culprits had ordered more than they could eat!
*You can find the story here:
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In this clever short story, the culprits had ordered more than they could eat!
*You can find the story here:
https://english101490.files.wordpress...
June 25, 2023
Mr Chiu and his bride are planning to return home after their honeymoon. They are eating lunch before boarding the train at the Muji City train station. A large statue of Chairman Mao dominates the area. A policeman suddenly throws tea at Mr Chiu and his wife, ruining their sandals. When Mr Chiu protests, noting that he is a respected university lecturer, he is arrested. Although the story is set after the Cultural Revolution, intellectuals and academics are still scorned. Mr Chiu is framed as a saboteur who is disrupting public order.
The story shows how powerless people can be in a police state. Corruption was present in all the ranks of the Muji police. The initial violence of throwing the tea led to an escalation of violence at the police station. This led to Mr Chiu plotting a deadly retaliation in a shocking ending.
The story shows how powerless people can be in a police state. Corruption was present in all the ranks of the Muji police. The initial violence of throwing the tea led to an escalation of violence at the police station. This led to Mr Chiu plotting a deadly retaliation in a shocking ending.
July 11, 2023
The fire of anger had got into his liver
Saboteur, a short story set in China after the Cultural Revolution, concerns a university lecturer, a member of the Communist Party, who is falsely accused of being a saboteur while at a regional train station with his bride. They are returning from their honeymoon and had stopped for a bite to eat.
The motivation of the police officers who provoke and accuse him is uncertain.
A spare, quiet story, quite straightforward, yet murky with hidden depths and treacherous undercurrents.
Saboteur, a short story set in China after the Cultural Revolution, concerns a university lecturer, a member of the Communist Party, who is falsely accused of being a saboteur while at a regional train station with his bride. They are returning from their honeymoon and had stopped for a bite to eat.
The motivation of the police officers who provoke and accuse him is uncertain.
A spare, quiet story, quite straightforward, yet murky with hidden depths and treacherous undercurrents.
July 11, 2023
That ending was awesome. Unfortunately those who deserved it probably didn’t get their just desserts, but he did his best. I don’t blame him for losing it.
He wasn’t wrong to speak up in the beginning, but honestly, why bother saying anything? Just accept the jerk splashed tea on you and go about your way. It’s not worth the confrontation.
Just because you are right, doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences to speaking up. Are the consequences worth it? For some things, yes (ie. Civil rights, Universal suffrage, standing up to hatred in all forms, etc,). For others? Not so much. Choose your battles wisely. He chose…poorly.
4, I loved that ending but upon further reflection was it worth it, stars.
He wasn’t wrong to speak up in the beginning, but honestly, why bother saying anything? Just accept the jerk splashed tea on you and go about your way. It’s not worth the confrontation.
Just because you are right, doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences to speaking up. Are the consequences worth it? For some things, yes (ie. Civil rights, Universal suffrage, standing up to hatred in all forms, etc,). For others? Not so much. Choose your battles wisely. He chose…poorly.
4, I loved that ending but upon further reflection was it worth it, stars.
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August 8, 2023
I read this in the Antioch Review, where it first appeared (and the easiest way to get it if you have access to JSTOR). This story of the casual and capricious brutality of the authorities in provincial China is disturbing, but not surprising. The protagonist, Mr Chiu, is sadly out of touch with realities of surviving in such a system. His revenge is just as random and capricious as his own mistreatment.
As a story of revenge, it is problematic. As far as the reader can tell Mr Chiu's revenge is inflicted entirely on innocent bystanders, while the guilty go unpunished. Perhaps that is Ha Jin's point. IIt lacks the tidiness of Aeschylus, where each act of revenge is finely calibrated and balanced, cause and effect, right up until Athena and the Areopagus end the sequence.
In any case, it is a well-crafted story; Ha Jin has a fine eye for detail.
As a story of revenge, it is problematic. As far as the reader can tell Mr Chiu's revenge is inflicted entirely on innocent bystanders, while the guilty go unpunished. Perhaps that is Ha Jin's point. IIt lacks the tidiness of Aeschylus, where each act of revenge is finely calibrated and balanced, cause and effect, right up until Athena and the Areopagus end the sequence.
In any case, it is a well-crafted story; Ha Jin has a fine eye for detail.
December 4, 2019
I really enjoyed this short story. It provided a major insight into how revenge is achieved in a collectivist society. Poisoning all of the town shows how the main character wanted to get revenge when the specific people who harmed him were out of reach. It shows how in a collectivist society everyone is viewed as a unit. There was no concept of innocents or collateral damage.
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August 8, 2023
A short and interesting book, the ending packs quite a punch.
Read as part of Goodreads “The Short Story Club”.
Read as part of Goodreads “The Short Story Club”.
August 9, 2023
Great story and highlights problems of politics and law. Love the ending - definitely did not see that one coming!
December 2, 2019
I really enjoyed reading this short story. It really shows how oppressive some societies can be. The ending really makes the reader question whether the ethics of his action are justifiable or not. The ending is a major jaw dropper. 10/10 recommend this book to any reader.
July 8, 2023
Last few lines????????? Talk about a powerful close omg.
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July 13, 2023
What do you do when the ground shifts under your feet? When those in power choose to confine you without explanation , after they acted with deliberate provocation? When you witness acts of cruelty designed to intimidate you into signing a false confession?
This simply told story captures the disbelief then rising indignation of an academic exposed to this arbitrary and dislocating process, when a minor incident with a policeman leads to sudden detention. Stripped of dignity he continues to imagine there's been a mistake , as his professional status hitherto has commanded privilege.
He has the last laugh, grim though that is, but the story, especially the initial rationalism and state of denial, reminded me of so many others the world over mostly true, where the prosperous and well connected are suddenly friendless and without representation in brutal dictatorships. To suddenly be disposable and powerless is a lesson that shocks the middle class, something that the poor have always known of course.
It's an uncomplicated story and , although I get the ending and the impulse for revenge , it's pretty grim ..discriminate harm breeds indiscriminate harm
This simply told story captures the disbelief then rising indignation of an academic exposed to this arbitrary and dislocating process, when a minor incident with a policeman leads to sudden detention. Stripped of dignity he continues to imagine there's been a mistake , as his professional status hitherto has commanded privilege.
He has the last laugh, grim though that is, but the story, especially the initial rationalism and state of denial, reminded me of so many others the world over mostly true, where the prosperous and well connected are suddenly friendless and without representation in brutal dictatorships. To suddenly be disposable and powerless is a lesson that shocks the middle class, something that the poor have always known of course.
It's an uncomplicated story and , although I get the ending and the impulse for revenge , it's pretty grim ..discriminate harm breeds indiscriminate harm
December 2, 2019
The thought of this poor, sick, and weak man using biological warfare against his society as a whole, is an interesting turn in the book, but it is also a good example of the fact that even the hero, or the character of justice can succumb to human emotion, and strike out in hatred. Without second thought about the true consequences of their actions.
December 11, 2024
A succinct and intense short story on power abuse, oppression and revenge. A professor is taken into custody under false allegations and forced to sign a confession of a crime he did not commit. The symbols of the narrative are easy to decipher with the police officers standing for corrupted authorities and the professor for intellectuals. The style is somehow kafkaesque, but I truly enjoyed the ending.
December 4, 2019
This short story is extremely interesting. It gives an insight in the Chinese culture, and how oppressive the government can be to its citizens. The man in the story never committed a crime; however, he was beat extensively. When he infected many people with his disease to get revenge, I was shocked. It seemed like a harsh reaction to punish so many innocent people. This story is very good, and I would recommend it to anyone who desires to study ethics.
July 27, 2023
Saboteur is a short story set in Muji City, China, after the Cultural Revolution. Mr. Chiu and his bride stopped for lunch at the train station on their way to Harbin after their honeymoon. Their pleasant meal was disrupted by an act of social injustice perpetrated by two police officers. Ha Jin documented Mr. Chiu’s mistreatment in ways that had me feeling indignant and angry on his behalf.
His plight threw light on how the innocent populace in China at that period in history were man-handled and forced to admit to wrong not of their doing. It is downright deplorable. On Mr. Chiu’s account, I regrettably derived a wicked sense of satisfaction at how this story ended. The story's title 'saboteur' took on new significance.
Ha Jin is the pen name of Jin Xuefei who is a Chinese-American poet and novelist. He is currently Professor of English at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. This short story can be read here: Saboteur
His plight threw light on how the innocent populace in China at that period in history were man-handled and forced to admit to wrong not of their doing. It is downright deplorable. On Mr. Chiu’s account, I regrettably derived a wicked sense of satisfaction at how this story ended. The story's title 'saboteur' took on new significance.
Ha Jin is the pen name of Jin Xuefei who is a Chinese-American poet and novelist. He is currently Professor of English at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. This short story can be read here: Saboteur
July 12, 2023
read Saboteur only:
On the surface a gripping story in itself, with slight slights Harbingers of impending entanglements, furthermore containing layers of innuendos and portrayals which quickly reveal my limitations in this regard; I'll be the stupid bride bookworm, only able to focus on the foreign storyline, whereas I gather Ha Jin is referencing and staging stages of the revolutionary timeline and beyond. Au contraire, I stand berated by the intellectual, ill prepared to discourse forth upon dialectical materialism, and even the food references have me lost for thought, but nevertheless unjaundiced and captivated
On the surface a gripping story in itself, with slight slights Harbingers of impending entanglements, furthermore containing layers of innuendos and portrayals which quickly reveal my limitations in this regard; I'll be the stupid bride bookworm, only able to focus on the foreign storyline, whereas I gather Ha Jin is referencing and staging stages of the revolutionary timeline and beyond. Au contraire, I stand berated by the intellectual, ill prepared to discourse forth upon dialectical materialism, and even the food references have me lost for thought, but nevertheless unjaundiced and captivated
August 21, 2023
A short story with a punch
A jerk of a cop throws tea at the feet of a man and his new wife, who are in a café in China. The man complains and the cop arrests him.
I’m keeping my lips sealed, except to say I liked the guy until the ending. The last act, which was clever (and such a surprise), made me squirm, and not in a good way. Despite my discomfort, I must say it’s the perfect ending to a gem of a story.
So squeeze this very short story in—you won’t regret it.
You can find the story here:
https://english101490.files.wordpress...
A jerk of a cop throws tea at the feet of a man and his new wife, who are in a café in China. The man complains and the cop arrests him.
I’m keeping my lips sealed, except to say I liked the guy until the ending. The last act, which was clever (and such a surprise), made me squirm, and not in a good way. Despite my discomfort, I must say it’s the perfect ending to a gem of a story.
So squeeze this very short story in—you won’t regret it.
You can find the story here:
https://english101490.files.wordpress...
December 2, 2019
This book was very eye opening on the state of China during this time. It also was a very interesting to read because of the revenge story of the main character. The ending is very good and makes the reader question his or her own moral standard. Because of the excellent writing style of Ha Jin, this book is a great read and I heavily recommend it.
December 2, 2019
This book is quite slow at the beginning. It is hard to understand what was happening until it is essentially spelled out for you. It is a fairly easy ethical question that is proposed by this read, however, to other cultures it could be more difficult. This book really makes you think about different cultures and their values.
December 6, 2019
I enjoyed this short story of a man wanting to get revenge on society. The main character was unjustly put in prison, and he developed this contagious disease while he was in there. He then decided to get revenge by spreading the disease to the whole city. This book is a good example of how most people have a sense of morals and ethics, and some do not.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 13, 2023
Saboteur is a short story by Ha Jin. On his way home to Harbin with his new wife after their honeymoon, Mr Chiu voices his objection to the bullying actions of two local policemen. His words land him in jail, and when he eventually gets out, he takes his revenge. A dark little tale that demonstrates what can happen when intelligent reasoning comes up against dumb power.
July 20, 2023
Fabulous short-story/novella. Thank you Cecily.
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July 31, 2023
An interesting short story, that points to the lack of control a Chinese citizen has against power-drunk Chinese policemen.
Thanks to Laysee for brining it to my attention.
Thanks to Laysee for brining it to my attention.
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