Shanghai girl: Emotional record for 20 years

Author: Jing Hong
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: She began her literary awakening with Lu Youqing. Ge Fei called her Jing Hong. This book includes her university life, campus girl letters, "From Immortal to Mortal in 14 Years," and a 20-year class reunion. She wrote, "20 Years of Campus Reflection: Love Hidden and Revealed." A very popular song in the 1980s titled "Reunion After 20 Years" went: "After 20 years, we'll meet again." She graduated from university in 1985, and this year is 2005, exactly 20 years. This book is dedicated to these 20 years, the 20 years of one person, the 20 years of a generation of university students, and the 20 years of an era. Shanghai Girls is an individual case, but also a common one, reflecting the early batch of university students after the Cultural Revolution ended and the college entrance exams were restored. They are the 1960s-born, 1980s-graduated university students who are now pillars in various work units. They were awakened to literature and lost in thoughts in the 1980s, receiving elite cultural education, concerned about the nation, the people, and life. As they entered society, they were unexpectedly thrown into the daily struggles of rice, oil, salt, joys, and sorrows. They also faced the tide of the commodity economy in the 1990s. In the colorful world of the new century, they had to run hard to avoid falling behind. Her life's narrative is a case of a generation of university students' life stories, a cultural psychological record of a 1960s-born person, and an important part of contemporary social psychology, as well as a cultural transmission between generations. Shanghai Girls also amplifies the concept of "her," closely reflecting the changes, richness, and attention a woman experiences from her 20s to her 40s. This book is divided into seven sections: Her University, Her Spiritual Starting Point, Her Rose Season, Her Angelic Radiance, and Her Feminist Views. The main contents include Campus Girl Letters; "From Immortal to Mortal in 14 Years"; Reading Life's Messages; and a 25,000-word love.