Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation
Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Communism & Socialism, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies
| Author: | Laifong Leung, Jan Walls | ISBN: | 9781315288277 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | Publication: | September 16, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Routledge | Language: | English |
| Author: | Laifong Leung, Jan Walls |
| ISBN: | 9781315288277 |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
| Publication: | September 16, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
