8: Which of the following best describes the author's reasons for writing the passages? A: Passage one focuses on the reasons for coin symbols and markings, while passage two focuses on the benefits of coin collecting. B: Passage one describes the process for creating coin symbols and markings, while passage two provides explanations for their value. C: Passage one focuses on the details of specific coin symbols and markings, while passage two focuses on one example of coin collecting. D: Passage one lists all of the coin symbols and markings, while passage two argues that symbols and markings should be changed over the years.

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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.