Dream of Ding Village
10 hrs. 28 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Lianke Yan
Author
Lianke Yan
Narrator
Alexey Barynin
Narrator
Alexey Barynin
Description
This is a novel about an HIV epidemic that spread across many provinces of China in the early 1990s, when the government decided to develop its own blood-plasma market and launched a campaign called “donor economics.” All over the country, numerous “blood centers” opened; in villages, “blood elders” appeared. Enticed by the slogan “Donate blood and get rich,” impoverished peasants rushed to donate blood and, due to unsanitary conditions, were mass-infected with HIV. Soon after, a deadly wave of the epidemic swept across the country, devastating entire villages.
The book is the result of three years of the author’s “undercover” work—after taking a job as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist, he gained the opportunity to study the history of one of the villages that had disappeared.
The book is the result of three years of the author’s “undercover” work—after taking a job as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist, he gained the opportunity to study the history of one of the villages that had disappeared.
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