Read the excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.” At school, even in kindergarten, you teach us to behave in the world. You teach us . . .

• not to hurt other creatures,
• to share – not be greedy.

Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?

Suzuki most likely includes this question in her speech to

A. ask listeners to remember what is taught in kindergarten.

B. encourage listeners to remember their own kindergarten classes.

C. challenge listeners to think about how they act in the world.

D. make listeners feel good about how children in the world are taught.

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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.

i wouldn't know because i've never read it, but going over it it looks interesting