Books by Zhang Xianliang and Complete Book Reviews
Zhang Xianliang, Author, Martha Avery, Translator David R. Godine Publisher $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-56792-030-7
Declared a Rightist by the authorities in 1958, Zhang spent 22 years in a labor reform camp in western China, condemned as an ``intellectual.'' Today he is one of China's best-known writers. As a hod carrier, he subsisted on scraps of food with an...
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Hsien-Liang Chang, Author, Zhang Xianliang, Author HarperCollins Publishers $19.95 (291p) ISBN 978-0-06-016521-5
Few American novels can approach the power and impact of this extraordinary work, a fictionalized autobiography by the Chinese author of Half of Man Is Woman . A harrowing account of the effects of repressive government on the individual, the novel...
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Hsien-Liang Chang, Author, Xianliang Zhang, Author, Zhang Xianliang, Author W. W. Norton & Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-02586-6
Published to acclaim in China and England, and to controversy and alarm in China for what was considered a daring depiction of sexuality (though it is merely discreet by Western standards), this intelligent, sensitive novel chronicles the ordeal of...
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