Years Of Sadness Selected Autobiographical Writings Of Wang Anyi Anyi Wang by Anyi Wang, Wang Lingzhen (translation), Mary Ann O'donnell (translation) 9781942242475, 1942242476 instant download after payment.

This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific & 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 & productivity. 

The three pieces selected for this volume—"A Woman Writer's Sense of Self," "Utopian Verses," & "Years of Sadness"—explore some of the most fundamental & complex issues concerning Wang's identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China, the creative & emotional challenges she faced during her sojourn in the United States in the early 1980s, & her memories of adolescent years, a period of obsession, uncertainty, & loneliness during the Cultural Revolution.

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Wang Anyi is a Chinese writer, vice-chair of the China Writers Association since 2006 & a professor of Chinese Literature at Fudan University.

She writes novels, novellas, short stories & essays with diverse themes & topics. Much of her work is set in Shanghai, where she lived & worked for the majority of her life. She also regularly writes about the countryside in Anhui, where she was ‘sent down’ during the Cultural Revolution.

Her works have been translated into English, German & French, & studied as zhiqing (educated youth), xungen (roots-searching), Haipai (Shanghai style), & dushi (urban, cosmopolitan) literature.

Wang Anyi was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2011.