Years of Sadness : Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi / translated by Wang Lingzhen and Mary Ann O'Donnell ; with an introduction by Wang Lingzhen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Anyi, 1954-

Contributor:

O'Donnell, Mary Ann.

Wang, Lingzhen.

Series:

Cornell East Asia Series ; number 147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women authors, Chinese--Biography.

Women authors, Chinese.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 190 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University East Asia Program, c2009.

Summary:

This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume-"A Woman Writer's Sense of Self," "Utopian Verses," and "Years of Sadness"-explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wang's identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China, the creative and emotional challenges she faced during her sojourn in the United States in the early 1980s, and her memories of adolescent years, a period of obsession, uncertainty, and loneliness during the Cultural Revolution.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Translations

UTOPIAN VERSES

YEARS OF SADNESS

A WOMAN WRITER’S SENSE OF SELF

Original text

乌托邦诗篇

忧伤的年代

女作家的自我

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-942242-47-6

OCLC:

933516598