Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation

By Jan Walls, Laifong Leung, Jan Walls

Book Overview

This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's "zhiqing" generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-age Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual youth, and eventually returned to relatively normal lives, but always with a tragic hiatus haunting their formative years. While one goal of Professor Leung is to introduce to the West an important group of writers little-known outside China, she also aims to succeed, through the interviews, in providing a special perspective on the devastating political history of China since the 1970s years through the eyes of its keenest observers and in offering a perspective on the social, political and cultural milieu of the period.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563241307
• ISBN13: 9781563241307
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.5" x 10.3"