
Years of Sadness
Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi
Anyi Wang(Author)
Cornell University East Asia Program (Publisher)
Published on 31. December 2012
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Paperback/Softback
204 pages
978-1-933947-47-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Cornell University Press
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
294 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933947-47-1 (9781933947471)
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03/2011
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Wang Lingzhen is Associate Professor of Chinese literature, film and media, gender studies, and feminist theory at Brown University.
Mary Ann O'Donnell is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Mary Ann O'Donnell is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.