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Summary:

"The Walking Boy is a quest novel set in early eighth-century Tang Dynasty China, in the final days of the rule of the first Female Emperor Wu Zhao. The ailing hermit monk Harelip sends his disciple Baoshi on a pilgrimage from Mount Hua to Chang'an, the Western capital; Baoshi is the "walking boy" charged with locating Harelip's missing former lover Ardhanari. Baoshi lives with a secret only his Master knows, and he is filled with fears of being discovered. On his journey, Baoshi crosses paths with both commoners and imperial officials, as well as others who take delight in their queer identities; in doing so, he is released powerfully from his past shame. The Walking Boy, set in the years following Kwa's recent novel Oracle Bone, is a book of quiet subversion, upending classical Chinese tropes with contemporary ideas around gender and feminism."-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Kwa, Lydia, 1959- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The walking boy [by Kwa, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Other format: Walking boy [by Kwa, L.] (Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019 — CaOONL Number 20189062231)

Subjects:

Empresses — China — Fiction

Intersex children — Fiction

China — History — Tang dynasty, 618-907 — Fiction

General Notes:

Originally published: Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PR9199.3.K9 K835 2019eb

ISBNs:

9781551527642 (electronic bk.)
1551527642 (electronic bk.)
9781551527635 [Invalid]
1551527634 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1080218194

Other Control Numbers:

2139146 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp300936499