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1949 : China, Trauma and Memory
Overview
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 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781940660691
- ISBN-10: 1940660696
- Publisher: Los Angeles Review of Books
- Publish Date: October 2020
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