Years of Sadness: Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi

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.

Author: Anyi Wang
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
Published: 03/31/2011
Series: Cornell East Asia
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 5.90h x 8.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781933947174