1st Edition
Morning Sun Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation
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