1949 China, Trauma and Memory |
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| Author:
| Yingtai, Lung |
| Interviewer:
| Cheng-yin Chow, Eileen |
| Translator:
| Cheng-yin Chow, Eileen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-940660-69-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2020 |
| Publisher: | Los Angeles Review of Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $12.00 |
Book Description:
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This slim volume will be an interview with Taiwan's most famous activist and author, Dr. Lung Yingtai. It's a conversation between Yingtai and Duke professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow about politics, activism, and writing, in which they discuss: personal history as national history, the public role of a writer in a places like Taiwan and China, and the writerly life as a woman, activist, and mother. Yingtai's most famous book, Big River, Big Sea--which will be excerpted and translated in...
More DescriptionThis slim volume will be an interview with Taiwan's most famous activist and author, Dr. Lung Yingtai. It's a conversation between Yingtai and Duke professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow about politics, activism, and writing, in which they discuss: personal history as national history, the public role of a writer in a places like Taiwan and China, and the writerly life as a woman, activist, and mother. Yingtai's most famous book, Big River, Big Sea--which will be excerpted and translated in this collection of interviews--has been banned in mainland China but is widely read among Chinese speakers and its diaspora. She describes it as "a novel in which everything is true."