| 1949: China, Trauma and Memory Contributor(s): Yingtai, Lung (Author), Cheng-Yin Chow, Eileen, Cheng-Yin Chow, Eileen (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1940660696 ISBN-13: 9781940660691 Publisher: Los Angeles Review of Books OUR PRICE: $10.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Interviews - History | Asia - China - Literary Collections | Asian - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This slim volume will be an interview with Taiwan's most famous activist and author, Dr. Lung Yingtai. It's a conversation between Yingtai and Duke professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow about politics, activism, and writing, in which they discuss: personal history as national history, the public role of a writer in a places like Taiwan and China, and the writerly life as a woman, activist, and mother. Yingtai's most famous book, Big River, Big Sea--which will be excerpted and translated in this collection of interviews--has been banned in mainland China but is widely read among Chinese speakers and its diaspora. She describes it as a novel in which everything is true. |