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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812592203321

Autore

Wang Jo-wang

Titolo

Hunger trilogy / / Wang Ruowang ; translated by Kyna Rubin with Ira Kasoff ; introduction by Kyna Rubin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015

ISBN

1-317-46834-1

0-87332-740-3

1-315-70360-2

1-317-46835-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (174 p.)

Collana

East Gate Book

Altri autori (Persone)

KasoffIra E

RubinKyna

Disciplina

895.1/352

895.1352

Soggetti

Autobiographical fiction, Chinese

Hunger

Prisons - China

China Social life and customs Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"An East Gate book"--t.p.

"First published 1991 by M.E. Sharpe"--t.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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