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Weight 0.315 kg Dimensions 5 × 8 in Edition Newsprint Year 2018 Language English Pages 344 Set in the tumult of China in the late eighties, Beijing Comrades gives us the story of two very different men–Handong, a self-absorbed businessman from the city, and Lan Yu, a quiet student activist from the countryside–falling in love and struggling to keep their relationship afloat in a society where their desire is yet to be recognized as anything but an illness. As the first English translation of the text, this edition finally brings to the English-speaking world a pioneering narrative of homosexuality in China. It is a sorely needed new perspective in the world of queer literature.