Morning Sun: Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781563241307)

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.

Author: Laifong Leung, Jan Walls
ISBN-10: 1563241307
ISBN-13: 9781563241307
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 11/30/1994
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 10.26h x 4.54w x 1.22d