A01=Helmut Martin
A01=Jeffrey C. Kinkley
arts
Author_Helmut Martin
Author_Jeffrey C. Kinkley
autobiographical essays China
Bai Xianyong
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Category=JBCC
censorship in literature
chang
Chen Ruoxi
Chen Yingzhen
Chinese literary criticism
Contemporary Chinese Literature
cultural revolution narratives
dafu
eileen
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eq_biography-true-stories
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exile and diaspora studies
fiction
Han Shaogong
Huang Chunming
Jia Pingwa
Knights Errant
Liu Binyan
Lu Xun
Ma Ji
Mao Zedong
martial
Martial Arts Fiction
Miss Sophie's Diary
People's Literature Publishing House
political influence on Chinese authors
realism in Chinese writing
Shen Congwen
Taiwan Literature
Wang Ruowang
xinxin
xun
yang
Yang Ge
Yang Xianyi
Young Man
Yu Dafu
zhang
Zhang Ailing
Zhang Xianliang
Zhang Xinxin
Product details
- ISBN 9780873328173
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1992
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume gathers personal reflections on life and literature by 44 of China's leading authors. It aims to illustrate how Chinese society and its creative writing have supported, competed and fought with each other for the past 40 years and more. Much of what is revealed here is mundane, but the pressure of bringing art to social and political causes, indeed the universal pressure to survive, forges this collection into a very human document. The strengths and weaknesses of these essays offer a window on those of modern Chinese literature itself. Realism was the favoured literary doctrine of the day, and, reflecting this, most of these essays speak for themselves - about war, revolution, betrayal and commitment.
Martin, Helmut; Kinkley, Jeffrey C.
