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"A Maverick Pig" Author: Wang Xiaobo Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House Producer: New Classic Culture

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Introduction · · · · · ·

About the Author · · · · · ·

Wang Xiaobo (1952-1997) is a contemporary Chinese writer.

Born in Beijing in 1952, he was admitted to Renmin University of China in 1978. In 1984, he went to study at the Center for East Asian Studies of the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. After returning to China, he taught at Peking University and Renmin University of China. In 1992, he became a freelance writer. His novels "The Golden Age" and "Future World" won the "United Daily News Novella Award" twice, and his film script "East Palace, West Palace" won the "Best Screenwriter Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival". He died of illness on April 11, 1997.

His representative works include the essay collections "A Maverick Pig" and "The Silent Majority", and the novels "The Golden Age", "The Silver Age" and "Hong Fu's Night Escape".

Table of contents · · · · · ·

A unique pig1
About "Give some atmosphere" 5
Coconut Tree and Equality 9
The War in the Belly 13
“Sensibility of Official Goods” and Cultural Relativism17
Yes and No 21
Emperor does exercises 25
About Clone 29
About "Meiya" 32
Humility Class 36
Refuse to accept compliments41
Experience Life 46
Rape and kill 50
Su Dongpo and Dongpo Pork 54
Civilization and Irony58
About Poverty62
Thoughts and Shame66
Liu Luoguozi and Oliver Twist 70
About Style73
About Sublime 80
Karaoke and Donkey Town 84
About "God was beaten" 87
April Fools' Day Thoughts 90
Beijing Dialect and National Self-Confidence 93
A New Parable of the Donkey and the Man
The courage to admit 100
About the "Great Family" 104
People, Foreigners, Officials108
Extreme Experience 112
My View on Chinese Studies 116
Wisdom and Chinese Studies 121
About the Round Heaven and the Square Earth131
The Republic and the Philosopher King134
My opinion on the difference between Eastern and Western views on happiness 140
Foreign devils and Gu Hongming 147
Freud and Masochism151
Braudelian Criticism of Chinese Culture154
Jump out of the palm 160
Superstition and Hell Book 167
The Beauty of Science172
Science and Heresy 177
Attitude towards knowledge 181
Life Sciences and Fraud 185
College Entrance Examination Experience 191
Dressage 195
My View on the “Old Three Classes” 199
About "Wrong Story" 204
How do I do ideological work for young people?
Letter to the New Year (1996) 211
Letter to the New Year (1997) 214
Why do I write? 218
Work and Life 224
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