{"id":12756,"date":"2024-03-22T18:29:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/product\/land-of-big-numbers\/"},"modified":"2024-03-25T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T07:02:29","slug":"land-of-big-numbers","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/product\/land-of-big-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of Big Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brother competes for gaming glory while his twin sister exposes the dark side of the Communist government on her underground blog; a worker at a government call centre is alarmed one day to find herself speaking to a former lover; a delicious new fruit arrives at the neighbourhood market and the locals find it starts to affect their lives in ways they could never have imagined; and a young woman&#8217;s dreams of making it big in Shanghai are stalled when she finds herself working as a florist.<\/p>\n<p>These are just some of the myriad lives to be evoked in The Land of Big Numbers, a collection of stories which &#8211; sometimes playfully, sometimes darkly &#8211; draws back the curtain on the realities of modern China and unveils a cast of characters as rich and complicated as any in world literature. With virtuosic brilliance, Te-ping Chen sheds light on a country much talked about but little understood and announces the birth of a bright new star in the literary firmament.<\/p>\n<p>Book Review: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/06\/964567998\/a-journalists-eye-enlivens-land-of-big-numbers\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/06\/964567998\/a-journalists-eye-enlivens-land-of-big-numbers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/terms-and-conditions\/#turn-books-condition-rating-scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Condition &#8211; Good (4\/5)<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/terms-and-conditions\/#turn-books-condition-rating-scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8994\" src=\"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/4_star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12832,"template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"product_cat":[378,71],"product_tag":[749],"class_list":{"0":"post-12756","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fiction","7":"product_cat-literature","8":"product_tag-world-literature","9":"pa_book-author-te-ping-chen","10":"pa_publisher-scribner","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/12756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=12756"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=12756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}