Read the excerpt from "On the Mountain.” Half an hour later, she knew she was going to have to be more resourceful. With the sun moving across the sky toward sunset, she opened her daypack to see what she had to work with. A cell phone, of course, but there was no reception in the area. Flashlight, protein bar, whistle, extra sweater, bandages, aspirin, burn cream, space blanket, peanuts, water bottle, matches, pocket knife. She ate some peanuts and took a couple of aspirin with a swig of water from her canteen, hoping they would relieve the pain in her knee. This excerpt is part of the story’s exposition. rising action. climax. falling action.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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