Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

The story, “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress”, sets place during the Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976. During this time period, China was more or less divided into two groups, the rich and the poor. With the Little Seamstress leaving Luo and the narrator at the end of the story, she leaves with a quote saying “She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price.” I believe that women should not be judged by their physical appearance

Courtney Dunn Mrs. Besnard World Literature 02 November 2015 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress In 1971 the Chinese Cultural Revolution has begun to take off. In this story the protagonist, an unnamed a fine musician, and his storytelling best friend luo, are sent away from Chengdu to a secluded mountain village to be re-educated. After arriving to the "Phoenix of the Sky", the Headman of the village wants to burn the protagonist’s violin. Luckily, Luo saves the violin by encouraging the musician

books, music or online. However, from the turn of the 20th century the modern day, it can still be evident. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress was a book written by Dai Sijie about two days (The narrator and Luo), where they are sent to a reeducation camp in rural China. While in reeducation, they meet the little seamstress, and discover books that were written by the French author Balzac. This book is set in China, which is known for its censorship demoting western media and promoting Communist

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress In this novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie, one of the main characters, Luo, is quite into the Seamstress. In this part of the story, each character, the Old Miller, Luo and the Narrator, are telling their points of view of when Luo and the Seamstress went to their little secret area. In Luo’s point of view, he explains what happened with the Seamstress. The relationship between the Seamstress and Luo reveals that Luo has a

but too often, we tend to define each other by one specific quality. Dai Sijie’s 2001 publication Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress demonstrates this in the form of two young men and how they consider their female companion. The Narrator and his friend Luo are being reeducated in a village in Communist China. Along the way, they both become captivated by the tailor’s daughter, the Seamstress. However, they only see her for her physical beauty, and for her potential to become “civilized”. By

China is and always will be a land seen as mysterious to those with roots in Western culture. And in its own way, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie is what can happen when Western and Far Eastern culture interact. Outside of the cultural revolution, headed by Mao Zedong, which makes the whole novel possible, and was a push back against Western involvement in China, the novel includes many other ideas of cultural interaction. However, it also prominently provides complex emotions

The novel, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai SiJie is about two boys, the narrator and his friend Luo. Along with other with other youths of China, they were both sent down to the country side during the Cultural Revolution of China to be re-educated. At the time anyone that had high school education were considered intellectuals and were considered as a threat to the cultural movement. However, the narrator or Luo only had middle school education and were considered intellectuals

In Dai Sijie’s Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, women are portrayed as China’s cultural feminine ideal of being demure and compliant. The novella takes place during China’s Cultural Revolution where two urban youths, Luo and the narrator find themselves sent to the countryside to be “re-educated”. The two protagonists encounter the Little Seamstress—the epitome of beauty—and fall in love. They civilize the Little Seamstress through Western literature allowing her to realize a woman’s true

The novel of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress written by Dai Sijie is a story set during the historical period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. During this time, the civilians are forced to endure the harsh conditions of reeducation. Dai includes very vivid details that exemplify how terrible the situation was for the characters and exemplify the severity of the tasks they had to complete such as carrying their waste up a mountain and working in dangerous coal mines. The narrator’s friend

author of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, recognizes the importance of foreshadowing and uses this technique in his novel. The color red is used to foreshadow through different motifs such as the “red beaked-raven,” (Sijie 135) wardrobe, and politics. Through the perspective of the book's narrator, whose name is not disclosed, the audience sees connections between red and approaching danger or troubles. The usage of the color red contributes to Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by foreshadowing