LEADER 04734nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910955718603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780231506915 010 $a0231506910 024 7 $a10.7312/chen13196 035 $a(CKB)1000000000445330 035 $a(EBL)895251 035 $a(OCoLC)826477667 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000227641 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11176518 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000227641 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10264941 035 $a(PQKB)10976336 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC895251 035 $a(DE-B1597)458738 035 $a(OCoLC)61109428 035 $a(OCoLC)979953804 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231506915 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL895251 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10183346 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31756385 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31756385 035 $a(Perlego)775663 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000445330 100 $a20030922d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA private life /$fChen Ran ; translated by John Howard-Gibbon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (231 p.) 225 1 $aWeatherhead books on Asia 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780231131964 311 08$a0231131968 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tTranslator's Note --$t0. All Time has Passed Away and Left Me Here Alone --$t1. Dancing on Tiptoe in Black Rain --$t2. My One-Eyed Nanny --$t3. I Carry an Infectious Disease --$t4. Scissors and Seduction --$t5. The Window Ho and Her "Changing Room" --$t6. A Stranger to Myself --$t7. Yi Qiu --$t8. The Inner Room --$t9. A Coffin Looks for an Occupant --$t10. Bed - A Stage for The Drama of The Sexes --$t11. A New Myth of Sisyphus --$t12. A Bed Cries Out --$t13. Yinyang Grotto --$t14. One Person's Death Brings Punishment to Another --$t15. Endless Days --$t16. Apple Bobbing --$t17. A Fiery Dance of Death --$t18. A Stray Bullet --$t19. The Birth of Miss Nothing --$t20. The Years Have Passed Away and Left Me Here Alone --$t21. The Lonely are a Shameless Lot 330 $aFrom one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a young woman growing up during a time of intense social and political upheaval.At the age of twenty-six, Ni Niuniu has come to accept pain and loss. She has suffered the death of her mother and a close friend and neighbor, Mrs. Ho. She has long been estranged from her tyrannical father, while her boyfriend-a brilliant and handsome poet named Yin Nan-was forced to flee the country. She has survived a disturbing affair with a former teacher, a mental breakdown that left her in a mental institution for two years, and a stray bullet that tore through the flesh of her left leg. Now living in complete seclusion, Niuniu shuns a world that seems incapable of accepting her and instead spends her days wandering in vivid, dreamlike reveries where her fractured recollections and wild fantasies merge with her inescapable feelings of melancholy and loneliness. Yet this eccentric young woman-caught between the disappearing traditions of the past and a modernizing Beijing, a flood of memories and an unknowable future, her chosen solitude and her irrepressible longing-discovers strength and independence through writing, which transforms her flight from the hypocrisy of urban life into a journey of self-realization and rebirth. First published in 1996 to widespread critical acclaim, Chen Ran's controversial debut novel is a lyrical meditation on memory, sexuality, femininity, and the often arbitrary distinctions between madness and sanity, alienation and belonging, nature and society. As Chen leads the reader deep into the psyche of Ni Niuniu-into her innermost secrets and sexual desires-the borders separating narrator and protagonist, writer and subject dissolve, exposing the shared aspects of human existence that transcend geographical and cultural differences. 410 0$aWeatherhead books on Asia. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General$2bisacsh 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. 676 $a895.1/352 700 $aChen$b Ran$f1962-$0689172 701 $aHoward-Gibbon$b John$01857369 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955718603321 996 $aA private life$94458164 997 $aUNINA