Exorcism Hospital Han Song by Han Song 9781542039499, 9781542039505, 1542039495, 1542039509 instant download after payment.

Readers who took the demented and disturbing trip through Hospital may
have arrived at Exorcism in search of closure, explanations, answers. But
Han Song’s dark, twisted fictional world is a land of many questions and
few answers. As each layer of the onion is peeled away, we do not get
closer to the core but instead drift even further in an Escher-like labyrinth
through space and time, the deepest recesses of the human subconscious,
and perhaps even the universe itself. But lurking behind a brutal facade
composed of the strange, outrageous, and uncanny are a series of reference
points unexpectedly closer to home.It may seem difficult to reconcile Han Song’s twisted and nightmarish
world of the hospital with any semblance of “reality,” which is why it is
important to tease out a few of the direct connections to China’s own
reality. While Han Song goes out of his way never to use the term
Zhongguo (China) in his novel, setting his fantastic nightmare in a
seemingly fictional alternate space, there are actually many connections
between Exorcism and the political and cultural world of contemporary
China.While the Hospital Ship, where the main action of Exorcism takes
place, feels fundamentally at odds from any sense of the everyday, it clearly
takes inspiration from Daishan Dao, a Type 920 hospital ship of
the People’s Liberation Army Navy. During peacetime, it is known as the
Peace Ark. The massive vessel—14,200 tons, 583 feet long—is
adorned with several large red crosses that identify it as a medical ship, and
it is equipped with eight operating theaters that can perform up to 40 major
surgeries a day. It has a further 20 intensive care unit beds,
and 300 regular hospital beds . . . Peace Ark also has
extensive diagnostic and examination facilities, with an X-
ray room, an ultrasound room, and a C-T scanner. There is
an examination room used for examining clinical specimens.
The ship has a gynecological examination room,…