1st Edition

Morning Sun Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation

By Laifong Leung, Jan Walls Copyright 1994
440 Pages
by Routledge

440 Pages
by Routledge

440 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Map: China

Interviews

Chen Cun: Half a Muslim

Chen Jiangong: A Coal Miner with Black Humor

Cheng Naishan: Banker's Daughter

Deng Gang: Fruit of the Sea

Hu Ping: A Social Investigator

Kong Jiesheng: A Cantonese Writer

Lao Gui: Old Ghost

Li Hangyu: Seeking "Roots" along the "Gechuan River"

Li Ping: Challenging Writer of Red Guard Fiction

Liang Xiaosheng: Affirming the Great Barren North

Lu Tianming: A Volunteer to Xinjiang

Lu Xing'er: Awakening Woman

Mo Y an: Creator of the Red Sorghum Series

Shi Tiesheng: Wheelchair Humanist

Tie Ning: A Writer of Sensitivity

Wang Anyi: Restless Explorer

Wang Xiaoying: An Autobiography Yet to Be Written

Wang Zhaojun: Survivor of the Great Leap Forward

Y e X in: Popular Realist

Zhang Chengzhi: Not Like Other Writers

Zhang Kangkang: Sensing the Trends

Zhang Shengyou: Probing the Nation's Troubles

Zheng Wanlong: Seeking Gold

Zheng Yi: Well Digging and Root Searching

Zhu Lin: Negating Rustication

Zhu Xiaoping: A Rebellious Gilded Youth

Biography

Laifong Leung, Jan Walls