{"id":5407,"date":"2005-06-30T21:30:17","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:26","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:26","slug":"mr-muos-travelling-couch-by-dai-sijie-translated-by-ina-rilke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mr-muos-travelling-couch-by-dai-sijie-translated-by-ina-rilke\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Muo\u2019s Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited follow-up to the provocative <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2001\/12\/01\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamtress-by-dai-sijie-translated-by-ina-rilke\/\">Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/06\/Mr.-Muos-Travelling-Couch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30859\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/06\/Mr.-Muos-Travelling-Couch.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch\" width=\"312\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/em>introduces readers to the hapless Muo, a newbie Freud devotee, who returns to his native China from France trying to secure the release of his college sweetheart from political prison. Muo\u2019s only hope is an immoral judge, whose asking price for freedom is a virgin maiden.\u00a0Muo travels the countryside, interpreting dreams along the way, in a desperate \u2013 albeit comic \u2013 attempt to free his lost love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-06-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, June 30, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5408\" title=\"Mr Muo's Travelling Couch\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/mr-muos-travelling-couch.jpg\" alt=\"Mr Muo's Travelling Couch\" width=\"120\" height=\"193\" \/>The long-awaited follow-up to the provocative <em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/2001\/12\/01\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamtress-by-dai-sijie-translated-by-ina-rilke\/\" target=\"_blank\">Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress<\/a><\/em><em> <\/em>introduces readers to the hapless Muo, a newbie Freud devotee, who returns to his native China from France trying to secure the release of his college sweetheart from political prison. Muo\u2019s only hope is an immoral judge, whose asking price for freedom is a virgin maiden. Muo travels the countryside, interpreting dreams along the way, in a desperate \u2013 albeit comic \u2013 attempt to free his lost love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/asianweek-2005-06-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, June 30, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,6,6535,66],"tags":[3598,6608,22,128,2605,51,3844,13,3845,28,29],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-repost","category-translation","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-cultural-revolution-in-china","tag-dai-sijie","tag-identity","tag-ina-rilke","tag-love","tag-mr-muos-travelling-couch","tag-politics","tag-race-racism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mr. Muo\u2019s Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/mr-muos-travelling-couch-by-dai-sijie-translated-by-ina-rilke\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mr. Muo\u2019s Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie, translated by Ina Rilke [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The long-awaited follow-up to the provocative Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress introduces readers to the hapless Muo, a newbie Freud devotee, who returns to his native China from France trying to secure the release of his college sweetheart from political prison. 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