Foreign Devil, Wang Ping's first novel, come nexts protagonist Ni Bing in post-Cultural Revolution China as she rouses from childhood on a naval island, to the campus of Beijing University, and finally to the plane ride that will take her to research in the United States. from head to foot this journey of maturation, Ni Bing constantly sidesteps the trappings that threaten her reason of individuality -- the spirits of family and national history, an affair with a married man, the politics of the Communist Party. The
