Selected Works of Yang Jiang: Essays I

Author: Yang Jiang
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Yang Jiang possesses profound expertise in traditional Chinese studies and extensive knowledge of Western learning. With her rigorous academic approach and sharp intellect, her novels, essays, and dramas are distinctive and have greatly influenced readers. These works, spanning over seventy years, reflect, from one perspective, the evolution of our times and showcase the intellectual journey of a scholar. While studying foreign literature, Yang Jiang also translated numerous world literary classics and wrote a series of insightful research papers on them, which have garnered positive responses in the field of foreign literature studies. This book selects twenty-three important essays written by the author in the 1980s, including "Six Records from the Daxiao," "Reminiscences of My Father," and "Chronicles of the Years Bingwu and Dingmo." Among them, the essays that recall people and reflect the past provide readers with many little-known and valuable historical materials. "Chronicles of the Years Bingwu and Dingmo," in particular, records the author's personal experiences and observations during the "Cultural Revolution," as well as her various struggles as a "forced laborer" in the movement. Unlike general accounts of the "Cultural Revolution," one former Red Guard who read this article later said, "Thank you, Yang Jiang, for removing the 'wolf skin' that covered us."