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UNINA9910464224603321 |
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Wang Jo-wang |
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Titolo |
Hunger trilogy / / Wang Ruowang ; translated by Kyna Rubin with Ira Kasoff ; introduction by Kyna Rubin |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
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ISBN |
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0-87332-740-3 |
1-315-70360-2 |
1-317-46835-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (174 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Autobiographical fiction, Chinese |
Hunger |
Prisons - China |
Electronic books. |
China Social life and customs Fiction |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"An East Gate book"--t.p. |
"First published 1991 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Translator's Note; Introduction: The Growth of a Nation and an Intellectual; Hunger Trilogy; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; About the Translator |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a ""rightist"" in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories |
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