Authors: Yan Lianke
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Table of Contents
Lenin’s Kisses
Also by Yan Lianke
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Copryright © 2004 by Yan Lianke
Translator’s Note
Lenin’s Kisses
Chapter 1: Heat, snow, and temporal infirmity
Chapter 3: The villagers of Liven become busy again
Chapter 5: Further Reading—Cold dead dog
Chapter 1: Looking at this person, this official, this Chief Liu
Chapter 3: Guns go off, clouds disperse, and the sun emerges
Chapter 5: The livening festival of the intercalary fifth month of the wuyin Year of the Tiger
Chapter 7: Cao’er departs, and people’s affections turn to Chief Liu
Chapter 9: Chicken feathers grow into a skyscraping tree
Chapter 1: A tumult breaks out, as though someone has just walked out a door and into a tree
Chapter 3: Grandma Mao Zhi tumbles over like a bundle of straw
Chapter 5: Further Reading—Entering society
Chapter 7: Further, Further Reading—Red Fourth
Chapter 9: Further, Further, Further Reading— Heavenly Days
Chapter 11: Further, Further, Further, Further Reading—Iron Tragedy
Chapter 1: However, that event suddenly erupted
Chapter 3: Long after the applause has died down, and the liquor has been drunk
Chapter 5: In front of the door, a bicycle is hung from a tree
Chapter 7: Establishing two special-skills troupes, and in no time at all there is a sheet of snow on the roof
Chapter 9: Further Reading—Hall of Devotion
Chapter 11: Facing a row of great men’s portraits, and with the portrait of his foster father behind him
Chapter 13: Hey, who was that who just walked out of our home?
Chapter 1: Everyone raises their hands, creating a forest of arms
Chapter 3: Further Reading—The Year of the Great Plunder
Chapter 5: Everyone knelt down in front of her, and the entire world was full of tears
Chapter 7: Lenin’s Mausoleum is completed, and the inauguration performance begins
Chapter 9: They have countless skills, as well as a purple aura
Chapter 11: The weather is increasingly warm, as winter becomes a sweltering summer
Chapter 1: A sheet of white cloth covered by a myriad of red dots
Chapter 3: Further Reading—Black disasters, red difficulties, black crimes, and red crimes
Chapter 5: Summer reverts back to winter, and spring is right around the corner
Chapter 7: The door is open. . . . The door is open. . . .
Chapter 1: Just before dusk, Chief Liu returns to Shuanghuai
Chapter 3: Chief Liu, Chief Liu, may I bow to you?
Chapter 5: The entire world bows down
Chapter 7: Everyone who does not agree to let Liven withdraw from society, please raise your right hand
Chapter 1: As for what comes later, it will come later
Chapter 3: Further Reading—Sister Hua Slope, Holiday, and Livening Song