Running Flame - A Novel

Fang Fang's explosive short novel inspired widespread social debate in China upon its publication in 2001. In exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of radical social change, The Running Flame bears witness to widespread experiences of gendered violence and inequality.

About the author

Fang Fang is the pen name of Wang Fang, one of contemporary China’s most celebrated writers. Her books in English include Soft Burial, also translated by Michael Berry. Fang Fang’s account of the COVID-19 lockdown in her hometown, Wuhan Diary, was translated into twenty languages and garnered critical acclaim from major media outlets around the world.

Michael Berry is professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of several books, including Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke (2022) and Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary (2022). He is also the translator of numerous books, including Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City (2020).

Summary

Fang Fang’s explosive short novel inspired widespread social debate in China upon its publication in 2001. In exploring the difficulties of one woman shackled by patriarchal tradition against the backdrop of radical social change, The Running Flame bears witness to widespread experiences of gendered violence and inequality.

Product details

• Authors: Fang Fang
• Assisted by: Michael Berry (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2024
• EAN: 9780231215008
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21500-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Chinese, FICTION / World Literature / China / 21st Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary