Years of Sadness: Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi: 147 (Cornell East Asia)

This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume―A Woman Writers Sense of Self Utopian Verses and Years of Sadness―explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wangs identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China the creative and emotional challenges she faced during her sojourn in the United States in the early 1980s and her memories of adolescent years a period of obsession uncertainty and loneliness during the Cultural Revolution.