Annotation Looks at Ding Ling's life and work prior to the founding of the People's Republic of China. Annotation An anarchist by temperament, the beautiful and talented Ding Ling attempted to find her way in the world alone. She had a few female friends and a few significant m…
A memoir of Yang Jiang (1911-2016), a Chinese author, translator and playwright. Originally published in 1981, this is Yang's most famous book, which reveals her life stories during China's Cultural Revolution. At age of nearly 60, she spent three years in the reform school and …
The Happy Hsiungs recovers the histories of two married Chinese writers who lived and worked in Britain from the 1930s onwards. Shih-I Hsiung shot to worldwide fame with his play "Lady Precious Stream," while Dymia Hsiung was the first Chinese woman to publish a fictional autobi…
