reading around the world – China

China: Half of Man Is Woman by Xianliang Zhang

Thoughts: This is either a book where Communist Chinese policies are an allegory for male impotence or male impotence is an allegory for Communist Chinese policies. I really can’t tell. Punningly however, the protagonist is pretty much a dick for most of the book, so maybe it doesn’t matter in the end which and what is allegory versus reality.

Rating: 3/5