Morning Sun Interviews with Chinese Writers of the Lost Generation

This is a collection of interviews with 26 writers of China's zhiqing generation, relatively young artists who participated in the Cultural Revolution as teen-aged Red Guards, suffered through the subsequent rustication of intellectual youth, and eventually returned to relatively normal lives, but always with a tragic hiatus haunting their formative years. While one goal of Professor Leung is to introduce to the West an important group of writers little-known outside of China, she also succeeds, through thoughtful and perceptive interviews, in providing a unique perspective on the devastating political history of China over the past 20 years through the eyes of its keenest observers. The social, political, and cultural milieu of the period emerges in fascinating detail.