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Years of Sadness: Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi

Anyi Wang

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
  • Publish Date: Mar 31st, 2011
  • Pages: 204
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 5.90in - 8.70in - 0.60in - 0.70lb
  • EAN: 9781933947174
  • Categories: • Asian - General• Asian - General• Literary Figures

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About the Author

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.

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