Xianliang Zhang

A love story set in a Chinese labor camp during the Cultural Revolution follows Zhang, a rightist poet made impotent, and Huang, a woman jailed for promiscuity, and their passionate, ill-fated love affair

Half of Man is Woman

Grass Soup is a portrait of degradation and redemption during the Cultural Revolution.

Grass Soup

As the Cultural Revolution rages, Zhang falls in love with a peasant woman jailed for promiscuity. After becoming separated for years, they unite, but Zhang has been made impotent, half a man, which eventually destroys their relationship."

Half of Man Is Woman

Martha Avery

Zhangng Xianliang

For years, Zhang Xianliang has been in and out of prison and labor camps while achieving recognition as one of China's foremost writers, and this powerful autobiographical novel and insider's portrait brilliantly chronicles what it means to be Chinese in China today.

Xianliang Zhang

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