Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation

by Laifong Leung, Jan Walls

Overview

This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's "zhiqing" generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-age Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual youth, and eventually returned to relatively normal lives, but always with a tragic hiatus haunting their formative years. While one goal of Professor Leung is to introduce to the West an important group of writers little-known outside China, she also aims to succeed, through the interviews, in providing a special perspective on the devastating political history of China since the 1970s years through the eyes of its keenest observers and in offering a perspective on the social, political and cultural milieu of the period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563240935
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/1993
Series:	Studies on Contemporary China
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	950L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Map: China Interviews Chen Cun: Half a Muslim Chen Jiangong: A Coal Miner with Black Humor Cheng Naishan: Banker's Daughter Deng Gang: Fruit of the Sea Hu Ping: A Social Investigator Kong Jiesheng: A Cantonese Writer Lao Gui: Old Ghost Li Hangyu: Seeking "Roots" along the "Gechuan River" Li Ping: Challenging Writer of Red Guard Fiction Liang Xiaosheng: Affirming the Great Barren North Lu Tianming: A Volunteer to Xinjiang Lu Xing'er: Awakening Woman Mo Y an: Creator of the Red Sorghum Series Shi Tiesheng: Wheelchair Humanist Te Ning: A Writer of Sensitivity Wang Anyi: Restless Explorer Wang Xiaoying: An Autobiography Yet to Be Written Wang Zhaojun: Survivor of the Great Leap Forward Y e X in: Popular Realist Zhang Chengzhi: Not Like Other Writers Zhang Kangkang: Sensing the Trends Zhang Shengyou: Probing the Nation's Troubles Zheng Wanlong: Seeking Gold Zheng Yi: Well Digging and Root Searching Zhu Lin: Negating Rustication Zhu Xiaoping: A Rebellious Gilded Youth

Editorial Reviews

Interviews with 26 writers of the zhiqing generation, the urban secondary-school and college students who on Mao's order were sent to the countryside during the Rustication--or "Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages"--Movement between the late 1960s and the mid- 1970s. The interviews not only document the literary activities of a unique group of writers of the post-Mao era, but they are also gripping accounts of individuals who survived the political turmoils and who have emerged from the ruins of the Cultural Revolution. Paper edition (unseen), $24.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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