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 |
| Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series |
| Publication Date: Mar 31, 2011 |
| Number of Pages: 204 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1933947179 |
| ISBN-13: 9781933947174 |
