Literature of the People's Republic of China: Movie Scripts, Dialogues, Stories, Essays, Opera, Poems, Plays (Chinese Literature in Translation)

Until now little of China's massive literary output of the last thirty years has been available to American readers. This landmark volume presents a generous sampling in translation of the literature written in the PRC from 1949 to the present. Included here are more than 200 selections: poems, stories, essays, a hsiang-sheng (comic dialogue), and excerpts from novels, plays, movie scripts, and an opera. Among the major writers represented are Ting Ling and Hao Jan (fiction); Ai Ch'ing and Feng Ching-y an (poetry); T'ien Han and Yang Han-sheng (drama); and Teng T'o and Chou Yang (essays).

Literature of the People's Republic of China offers a fascinating glimpse into Chinese life and demonstrates the struggle of creative writers to be true both to their art and to their country's revolution.