{"product_id":"years-of-sadness-selected-autobiographical-writings-of-wang-anyi-paperback","title":"Years of Sadness: Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLingzhen Wang\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLingzhen Wang\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eMary Ann O'Donnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 Writer's Sense of Self,\" \"Utopian Verses,\" and \"Years of Sadness\"--explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wang's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWang Lingzhen is Associate Professor of Chinese literature, film and media, gender studies, and feminist theory at Brown University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Ann O'Donnell is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 5.9 x 8.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 31, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46870745481355,"sku":"9781933947471","price":31.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/coingratulations.com\/products\/years-of-sadness-selected-autobiographical-writings-of-wang-anyi-paperback","provider":"Coingratulations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}