Off With His Interior Self!: Shi Zhecun’s Weird and Wonderful “The General’s Head”

A character forgets whose head he has on his shoulders. An entire army delivers a unison monologue. Oh, and along the way an entire national approach to ethnicity comes into question. Shi Zhecun’s The General’s Head has a little of everything, and anyone interested in questions of nations, personal identification, and the life of the mind would do well to read it.