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The Little Chinese Seamstress Sigie explores how humans interact with one another based on background. In The Little Chinese Seamstress, he directs his attention towards relationships between modern and old, rural and urban lifestyles, as well as government rule and the peoples reaction. During Mao Zedong 's rule re-education was a primary source of levying control over society by casting the youth of learned families out into the countryside. It was there that they were forced to work and be separated from any higher education so they may learn what true labor was. This created a clash in society causing rifts in cultural values and social norms. Upon arrival in the mountain top village, Ma and Luo were both judged based upon their …show more content…

This caused China to suffer culturally and economically on a global scale. However the people did not always follow the laws of the government. Moas government was against drugs such as opium however when the officials were not around, villagers could be seen taking to their old habit without a thought. Ma takes in the scene of a village of growers in the distance “After harvesting their crops they spend their time attacking anyone who happens to pass by.”(12) The way people coped with the governments laws reacted in one of two ways. In this case they continued their cultural tradition, while in others they would give in and play the game. Four Eyes as he is called, is an acquaintance of Luo and Ma who is known as a coward ,but is celebrated by the villagers for his transition in re-education. In one case Four Eyes is told by a villager that “To gain courage you must swallow it while it 's still lukewarm and frothy.”(94) Four Eyes by drinking blood of an ox goes to extremes to gain respect and it eventually pays off and is allowed to return home. However luo and ma fight the tyrannic government and never focus on becoming educated and explore their own path and do not conform to society like the opium

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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written by Dai Sijie, is set in 1971 during the China’s Cultural Revolution. The book starts with two boys, unnamed narrator and his friend Luo being sent from their hometown Chengdu to a small village in Phoenix Mountain to be “re-educated”. The book continues with them skillfully living through the harsh village life with their talent of storytelling and their western knowledge gained from books. Throughout the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie illustrates different types of literature and how it transforms the character’s life, action and their personalities in both good and bad way. This book is one unique novel about two boys and one little girl’s transformation by the magical

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In Seiji 's, Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress, many books get mentioned that relate to the time, era and setting where the book takes place. The novel occurs during the cultural revolution, and talks about two boys who got taken away from their houses and sent into a village in the mountain to get “reeducated”. Throughout the book the author mentions some historically famous books that relate to what was going on in the novel. Many people question why Sijie´s chose to title the novel after Balzac’s work Ursule Mirouet, why not after Jean Christophe, Hunchback of Notre Dame or Count of Monte Cristo. Some themes that are similar in all of these books is love, resistance to the authorities and escape.

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