The Rising Tree The village of Bandar was known to be a hard place. True, it was rocky and
bitter cold. But eleven-year-old Sayla loved her homeland. She loved the
eerie wind. She loved the spoon-grey sky. Most of all, she loved the ancient
trees. For this was the secret of Bandar: its trees were magic.
One had only to wait for autumn, when the leaves fell. To release the trees'
magic, the leaves were crumbled into dust and scattered while a spell was
chanted
Each type of tree had its own magic. A few people, like the wise Dearna,
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the correct answer is dilapidated.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.