20th century China hardship
A01=Ira Kasoff
A01=Kyna Rubin
A01=Wang Ruowang
Acupuncture Anesthesia
Author_Ira Kasoff
Author_Kyna Rubin
Author_Wang Ruowang
autobiographical accounts of deprivation
Bohai Region
Cao Diqiu
Carrot Leaves
Category=DNBM
Category=JPFC
Category=JPVR
Chinese political history
communist activism research
Cultural Revolution studies
Dead Man
Deep Red
Devil's Circle
Devil’s Circle
dissident memoir
Divulging State Secrets
Doctor's Approval
Doctor’s Approval
Dried Beef
East China Bureau
Eighth Route Army
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Guomindang Prison
Japanese Devils
Jiang Qing
Ma Tianshui
Peking Opera Troupe
political imprisonment
Sesame Cake
Shanghai Municipal Committee
Sichuan Dish
Tea Mug
Veteran Cadre
Wang Hongwen
Young Man
Zhang Chunqiao
Product details
- ISBN 9780873327398
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a "rightist" in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and "Hunger".
Kyna Rubin, who received her M.A. in Modern Chinese Literature from the University of British Columbia, was among the first students in 1979–80 to conduct research in China under the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China. She was a professional associate at the CSCPRC from 1982 to 1989 and is now a writer and editor at The Urban Institute. She has worked closely with Wang Ruowang since 1980.
