Postino translated py hatnerine silver)
5. When the poet Neruda says to the
postman, "And you think you can think
just standing there," what is implied
about the postman?
(1) He has parked his bicycle illegally.
(2) He cannot do two things at the same
time.
(3) He must think by being active.
(4) He cannot write while standing up,
(5) He cannot talk and write at the same
time.

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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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by explaining that it took the same total time to travel by plane as it did by train