![]() ![]() Although he is succeeding in re-education, he is also hiding a secret set of foreign novels that are forbidden by Chinese law. Luo and the narrator meet Four-Eyes, the son of a poet, who is also being re-educated. They are even excused from work for a few days to see films at a nearby town and later retell the story to the townspeople, through a process known as "oral cinema". ![]() Residents of the small farming village are delighted by the stories the two teenagers retell from classic literature and movies that they have seen. The two boys fall in love with the Little Seamstress, the daughter of the local tailor and "the region's reigning beauty". ![]() They are assigned to re-education through labor and are sent to a mountain called "Phoenix of the Sky" near Tibet to work in the coal mines and with the rice crop, because their doctor parents have been declared enemies of the state by the government. The novel, written by Dai Sijie, is about two teenage boys during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Luo, described as having "a genius for storytelling", and the unnamed narrator, "a fine musician". A film based on his novel directed by Dai was released in 2002. ![]() Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (French: Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise) is a semi- autobiographical novella written by Dai Sijie, and published in 2000 in French and in English in 2001. ![]()
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