| Years of Sadness: Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi Contributor(s): Wang, Anyi (Author), Wang, Lingzhen (Translator), O'Donnell, Mary Ann (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1933947470 ISBN-13: 9781933947471 Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series OUR PRICE: $26.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - General - Literary Criticism | Asian - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: 895.1 |
| LCCN: 2009925880 |
| Series: Cornell East Asia |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.6" W x 5.9" (0.50 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |