F - Hu Feng''s Prison Years

Informationen zum Autor Mei Zhi (1914–2004), originally known as Tu Qihua, was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu. She joined the Left-Wing Writers’ Union in 1932. In 1944, she joined the All-China Anti-Japanese Association of Literary and Art Circles. She helped Hu Feng edit the literary periodicals July and Hope . In the 1930s she began writing essays, novels, children’s stories and poetry. She published several books of poems for children. In 1955, she was forced after the attack on Hu Feng to stop her creative work. In 1980, after Hu Feng’s rehabilitation, she was appointed as a writer in residence of the Chinese Writers’ Association. As well as resuming her writing for children, she published a large number of memoirs and essays, including the present book and a full-length biography of Hu Feng. Klappentext "First published as Hu Feng chen yuan lu, Science Press, c1989"--T.p. verso. Zusammenfassung China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution.

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Mei Zhi

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• Authors: F, Zhi Mei, Mei Zhi, Mei Zhi
• Assisted by: Gregor Benton (Translation), Benton Gregor (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9781844679676
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-967-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Memoirs, Penology and punishment, Prisons, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs