Confessions of a Red Guard

A Memoir
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-937385-78-1
Verlag: Merwinasia

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Unlike other accounts of the Cultural Revolution, novelist Liang Xiaosheng’s Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents affecting ordinary people during this extraordinary historical period. In the author’s odyssey as a young Red Guard, he is witness to public humiliations of “counterrevolutionaries,” real and imagined; a sex murder and the culprit’s execution; a budding romance in a most unlikely place; stolen pleasures with forbidden books; the ecstasies and personal sacrifices surrounding a glimpse of Chairman Mao at Tiananmen Square; and a host of small ironies of life during a revolutionary movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Xiaosheng, Liang

Weitere Mitwirkende

Goldblatt, Howard

Über Autor(innen)

Liang Xiaosheng is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter. Liang is a member of China Writers Association. He is also a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University. His novels have been translated into English, French, Japanese, Russian, and Italian.