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. Gregor Benton is emeritus professor of Chinese history at Cardiff University. He has published many books on China and other subjects. His principal research areas are modern Chinese history, dissent under communism, and Chinese diaspora. His Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 (1992) won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies' prize for the Best Book on Modern China. His translation of Mei Zhi's Hu Feng's Prison Years won the English Pen Award. 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: f, Zhi Mei, Mei Zhi, Mei Zhi
• Con la collaborazione di: Gregor Benton (Traduzione), Benton Gregor (Traduzione)
• Editore: Verso
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2013
• EAN: 9781844679676
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-967-6
• Pagine: 304
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Altre lingue / altre letterature; China, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Memoirs, Penology and punishment, Prisons, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs