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Chan Koonchung's second novel, The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver, like his first, The Fat Years (Chen and Duke 2011), is banned in mainland China for its dystopian and realist depiction of racial discrimination, economic inequality, government corruption, and public dis-ease in contemporary Chinese society. Tracing the adventures of the quintessential anti-hero in the form of Champa, a young Tibetan man from Lhasa on his way to Beijing, a city of wealth, adventure, and opportunity in his mind, Koonchung effectively constructs a depiction of modern youth and masculinity in an economically perilous period, as well as a broader narrative of the difficult relationship between Tibetan and Chinese identity. ...

Tibetan Folktales brings a welcome addition to the well-respected World Folklore Series, published by Libraries Unlimited, an imprint of ABC-CLIO LLC. The primary author, Haiwang Yuan, Professor of Library Public Services at Western Kentucky University, has also written two other texts in the series, The Magic Lotus Lantern and Other Tales from the Han Chinese, and Princess Peacock: Tales from the Other Peoples of China, winner of the 2009 Aesop Accolade Award for the Children's Section of the American Folklore Society. ...