Morning Sun

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.