In Ambush, " which sentence best reflects the idea that O'Brien is more concerned with emotional truth than factual truth ? I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I remember happening. He was a short, slender young man of about twenty. Shortly after midnight we moved into the ambush site outside My Khe. He wore black clothing and rubber sandals and a gray ammunition belt. “I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I remember happening.”

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in this alternate universe, renaissance romeo is now seventeen, an apprentice to a glass maker in venice. modern romeo is planning to go to college. what major do you think he’ll elect?

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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.