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Novelistic treatments of the Great Leap Forward (4,5,6)
I remember reading Yang Xianhui’s 杨显惠 2007 book Dingxi gu’eryuan jishi 定西孤儿院纪事 (The Dingxi Orphanage Chronichles), a fictionalized memoir which also narrates the stories of a group of orphans growing up in Gansu in the years of the GLP.
Paolo Magagnin <paolo.magagnin at unive.it>
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I am currently reading Yan Geling's "The Ninth Widow" (第九个寡女), about a rural woman who hides her landowner father-in-law through the campaigns of the 50's and 60's. Although it is not entirely about the famine, there are many pages devoted to it.
Judy Amory (jmamory at post.harvard.edu)
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In addition to the historical inaccuracy of the word "reformers" in Rojas's translation that Jeremy Brown pointed out in his review, I would also like to question the word "Author" that Rojas has chosen instead of "Writer" for the character named Zuojia 作家. With the exception of the character the Child, all other characters in The Four Books are named after their previous professions -- the Scholar, the Musician, etc.. "Author" is not a profession, but "Writer" is, and that is exactly the profession of the character Zuojia 作家 in his former life, before the reform-labor camp.
I would also like to bring list members' attention to another collection of short stories by Yang Xianhui 楊顯惠, Dingxi gueryuan jishi 定西孤兒院紀事. This collection is about the Great Famine, and like Jiabiangou jishi 夾邊溝紀事, the stories are also based on Yang's investigations and interviews of survivors.
Lingchei Letty Chen <llchen at wustl.edu>
by denton.2 at osu.edu on August 4, 2015
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