The Earth Sings Author:Ya Ding, Jon Rothschild (Translator) A loyal Communist is sent to a small village to serve as prefect and helps to release the community from its primitive poverty. Then the Cultural Revolution breaks out and the prefect is branded a "capitalist," leading to much suffering for him and his family. Stories of this nature abound in the "scar literature" of China. I... more »f Ya Ding's novel has something new to add, it is that the story is told from the point of view of the nine-year-old son of the prefect.« less