Maqiao Cidian

Basic information

Title: 马桥词典 (Dictionary of Maqiao)

Author: 韩少功 (Han Shaogong)

Original text:https://archive.org/details/maqiaocidian0007hans/page/n7/mode/1up

Translation (bardzo polecam, książka jest naprawdę dobra): https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmaqi0000hans/page/n1/mode/1up

Presentation: [na google doc będzie]

Glossary

Bandit Ma: see Ma Wenjie. Benren: Benyi's same-pot brother; fled to Jiangxi during the Great Leap Forward. Benyi (also Ma Benyi): Party Branch Secretary in Maqiao. Commune Head He: leader of the local commune. Fucha: Maqiao's accountant. Kuiyan: "lazy" son of Zhaoqing. Long Stick Xi: a mysterious outsider who introduced "tincture of iodine" to Maqiao. Ma Ming: leader of Maqiao's "Daoist Immortals," inhabitant of the "House of Immortals." Ma Wenjie: Maqiao's most famous modern historical figure and former County Leader. Master Black (also Mou Jisheng): muscular but dim Educated Youth. Master Nine Pockets: renowned beggar king of Changle. Shuishui: wife of Zhihuang the stonemason, later a "dream-woman." Three Ears: unfilial son of Zhaoqing, one of the "Daoist Immortals," later lover of Tiexiang. Tiexiang: daughter of Master Nine Pockets, later wife of Benyi and lover of Three Ears. Uncle Luo: former village leader; Maqiao's oldest cadre. Wanyu: Maqiao's singing star. Xiongshi: son of Zhihuang and Shui Shui, killed in delayed blast of Japanese bomb. Yanwu: talented younger brother of Yanzao. Yanzao: "Traitor to the Chinese," persecuted and bullied for being a landlord's son. Zhaoqing: notoriously stingy inhabitant of Maqiao, father of Three Ears. Zhihuang: Maqiao's stonemason, famed for his stupidity, married toShuishui. Zhongqi: Maqiao's resident gossip and busybody.

ATTENTION COMRADES !!!!!!!

Due to technical issues (and the fact that I study sinology cause I am a technical dumb-ass that cannot even open a power point without my computer crashing) the fragments will be given in a form of Google Doc. After reading them, pretty please upload the summary directly onto wiki (or to google doc too, if you are feeling generous, i don't give a duck). Thank you for your attention comrade and God Save the Queen.

Fragments to summarize

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10WL6Nu4vHXLI87i5EIJqy_SywLchGPhmr4kYevAARqQ/edit?usp=sharing