Years of Sadness

Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi

Anyi Wang, Lingzhen Wang, Mary Ann O'Donnell, Lingzhen Wang, Mary Ann O'Donnell

• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781942242475
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

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 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.

Table of contents

• i Half Title Page
• ii Copyright Page
• iii Title Page
• v Contents
• vii Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Translations
• Original Text