Attic - Memoir of a Chinese Landlord''s Son

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About the author

Guanlong Cao is the award-winning author of the trilogy Three Professors, published in China and translated in Roses and Thorns: The Second Blooming of the Hundred Flowers in Chinese Fiction, 1979-80, edited by Perry Link (California, 1984). He has also published Male River and Adam Parkinson in China, and he has twice won the prestigious Shanghai Literature Award. He emigrated to the United States in 1987 to matriculate at Middlebury College as a 42-year-old undergraduate. He now holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. His artwork includes sculpture, photographs, paintings, and prints.

Summary

An autobiographical account of growing up in urban Shanghai that affords a rare glimpse into daily life during the turbulent years following the Communist Revolution. It illuminates a world largely unknown to Westerners, one where human pettiness, cruelty, joy, and tenderness play themselves out against a backdrop of political upheaval.

Product details

• Authors: Guanlong Cao, Cao Guanlong, Cao/Moskin, Cao Guanlong, Kuan-Lung Ts'ao
• Assisted by: Guanlong Cao (Editor), Nancy Moskin (Editor), Guanlong Cao (Translation), Cao Guanlong (Translation), Nancy Moskin (Translation), Moskin Nancy (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.1998
• EAN: 9780520204065
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20406-5
• No. of pages: 255
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Autobiography: general, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / China, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History