Embracing the Lie Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in the People's Republic of China

Name: Embracing the Lie Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in the People's Republic of China
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ISBN: 9780275972363

ISBN-10: 0275972364

ISBN-13: 9780275972363

Edition: 2004

Authors: Charles J. Alber

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This volume is the first serious attempt to reconstruct Ding Ling's biography during the last few decades of her life. Most Westerners know her as a progressive woman writer who became famous during the May 4 Movement, championed its values in Yan'an and was criticized in the rectification campaigns that followed. Few know about her life afterward and the arduous process of rehabilitation. Here for the first time readers will learn about her life in the Great Northern Wasteland, solitary confinement in Qincheng prison, her visit to the United States, participation in the spiritual pollution campaign, and finally, the attempt to launch the journal China. All of this puts a new perspective on…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 10/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Striding into a New Era



Leaning to One Side



Spies and Secret Agents



Elevating the Combative Spirit



To Better Serve the People



Counterrevolutionaries



Rectification, the Prelude



The Anti-Rightist Campaign



In the Great Northern Wasteland



The Three Bitter Years



The Cultural Revolution



Cowpen



In Prison



Shanxi Revisited



In the Bosom of the Party



Interviewing Ding Ling



The America that She Saw



Eradicating Spiritual Pollution



Deathbed Politics



The Journal China



Epilogue



Letter from Ding Ling to Cao Yumei



Letter to Shanxi Press in Care of Peng Fumin


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index