Lazy Search for Old Dreams Record: Supplement Edition

Author: Xia Yan
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Xia Yan, known as the "century-old peer," is an important writer in modern Chinese literature. As a firsthand participant in many cultural and political events of 20th-century China, Xia Yan began writing this autobiographical memoir at the age of eighty-four. It reveals the true faces of many significant historical events over half a century, providing valuable and abundant historical materials for the study of modern Chinese literary history and film history. The account of the "Ten Years of the League of Left-Wing Writers" is particularly of great interest to the literary world. An old man who has experienced all the hardships, his heart's history is intricate, reluctant to seek old dreams, deliberately reflecting, showing unwavering integrity and growing stronger with age, leaving one deeply moved and inspired.