Portrait of a Chinese Intellectual: Jia Zhimo

Author: Song Binghui (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book comprehensively records the turbulent and fraught life of Mr. Jia Zhifang: from his childhood to his later journey to Tokyo for studies, from his military service during the War of Resistance to his imprisonment and subsequent releases, and finally to his late-life reflections on life and history. Accompanying the simple and unadorned text are a series of photographs. Each photo carries a story that can be written down. Jia Zhifang's wandering, loneliness, suffering, and hopes and dreams unfold before the reader. At the beginning of each of the 12 life stages of Mr. Jia, the compiler quotes a short passage from Jia's works (such as To Hu Feng, Inside and Outside the Prison, Let's Talk About Myself, etc.) as an epigraph, which allows readers to better sense the life experiences and true emotions of Mr. Jia during that period.