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

    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.

    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