Hunger trilogy / Wang Ruowang ; translated by Kyna Rubin with Ira Kasoff ; introduction by Kyna Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Ruowang, author.

Contributor:

Kasoff, Ira E.

Rubin, Kyna.

Series:

East Gate Book

Standardized Title:

Chi o san pu ch'u. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wang, Ruowang--Imprisonment.

Wang, Ruowang.

Wang, Ruowang--Translations into English.

Autobiographical fiction, Chinese.

Hunger--Fiction.

Hunger.

Prisons--China--Fiction.

Prisons.

China--Social life and customs--Fiction.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a ""rightist"" in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Translator's Note; Introduction: The Growth of a Nation and an Intellectual; Hunger Trilogy; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; About the Translator

Notes:

"An East Gate book"--t.p.

"First published 1991 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-317-46834-1

0-87332-740-3

1-315-70360-2

1-317-46835-X

9781315703602

OCLC:

905855784