Autobiography collection

Author: Shen Congwen
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Picking up my pen, I wanted to write about the days I lived on this earth for twenty years, the people I saw, the sounds I heard, and the scents I smelled; in other words, the true education I received in life. Shen's Autobiography tells about Shen Congwen before he turned twenty. A mischievous primary school student, a true nobody, who later squeezed into the 20th-century Chinese literary scene and became a shining name in literary history—this is simply a mystery. Reading this brilliantly written autobiography allows one to glimpse some clues to unlocking this mystery. As for Shen's life after the age of twenty, we have selected three of his rare speeches from the past forty years, along with several other writings, to give readers a glimpse of the difficult trajectory of his life.