Catnip

The White Tiger provides a peep hole into post Mao China. Aside from the story it gives a lucid description of the architecture, built environment and the lives the Chinese people at the time, as well as the sub surface gang network and the fragile balance of the regime before it grew to be a global super power. As Hong progresses insights into China recent and far past are revealed. The novel shows a slither of a nation almost entirely sealed off from the West. Like him or not it shows how Mao remains a flagship of China's recent past and how it has shaped it today.