In this collection of short stories, Ma Yuan tells enigmatic tales about an eponymous narrator's travels in Tibet that question the very meaning of "story" and our assumptions about meaning itself. Yang Xiaobin's introduction explores Ma Yuan's role as China's first postmodernist author. Ma Yuan's stories and novellas develop metafiction in synergy with Tibetan Buddhism's notion of the cosmos as an illusion.

Ma Yuan is of interest for his cloaked allusions to the tortured relationship between Chinese and Tibetans. Where government propaganda portrays the Chinese as the liberators of...

In this collection of short stories, Ma Yuan tells enigmatic tales about an eponymous narrator's travels in Tibet that question the very meaning of "story" and our assumptions about meaning itself. Yang Xiaobin's introduction explores Ma Yuan's role as China's first postmodernist author. Ma Yuan's stories and novellas develop metafiction in synergy with Tibetan Buddhism's notion of the cosmos as an illusion.

Ma Yuan is of interest for his cloaked allusions to the tortured relationship between Chinese and Tibetans. Where government propaganda portrays the Chinese as the liberators of...