The Visiting Suit

Xiaoda Xiao

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The Visiting Suit chronicles Xiao’s arrest through his release from the labor prison five years later. he tore a poster of Chairman Mao while inebriated. Several months later, Xiao was arrested in order to fulfill an absurd quota and, without trial, declared a counterrevolutionary. He was sent to a labor prison on an island in Taihu Lake, where he worked in a stone quarry.

About the Author

Xiaoda Xiao has published stories based on his prison experience during the last years of Mao's regime in China in various magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly. He is the author of the novel The Cave Man.

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