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Jack Livings The Dog is a collection of eight stories set in contemporary China. Although the author is not Chinese, he has lived in China for some time as an exchange student and English teacher - but does this small window in time give him a real insight into the minds of the Chinese and the nature of their country?An author who does this splendidly is Robert Olen Butler, whose A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain is a collection of stories narrated by and about Vietnamese, living in Vietnam and abroad. Butler spent time in Vietnam during the war as a translator, having plenty of time and opportunity to interact with ordinary people - which shows in his stories: his narrators speak for themselves, with each having a unique voice to tell a different story about their experience. For these stories, Butler has been awarded the Pulitzer - and rightly so; these are touching stories of people who had to spread all across the world because of a terrible war that was brought upon them.Unfortunately The Dog pales in comparison. Although the collection has been well received by professional reviewers, who praised it as a window into contemporary China, I could never shake off the feeling that I was reading stories about the Chinese written by someone who was not Chinese, but tried to write from a Chinese perspective. I couldnt connect with the characters as I did in Robert Olen Butlers stories, and found none of the stories to be particularly insightful, or moving. The one story of note that I would select would be The Crystal Sarcophagus - which is centered around the impossible effort of building an appropriate grave for the recently departed Chairman Mao. Still, it feels and is an artificial construct - with non-real characters engaged in an absurd situation for its sake.However, this one story is not enough for me to truly recommend the entire collection/ I approached it wanting to experience stories about China, but couldnt shake off the impression that I was reading a second-hand experience of China. And with Chinese authors being translated into English and other languages, this is simply not good enough. Better luck next time, laowai!
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