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Embracing the Lie: Ding Ling and the Politics of Literature in the People's Republic of China » (New Edition)

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Authors: Charles J. Alber
ISBN-13: 9780275972363, ISBN-10: 0275972364
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Charles J. Alber

CHARLES J. ALBER is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of South Carolina.

Book Synopsis

A comprehensive account of Ding Ling's life.

1	Striding into a new era	11
2	Leaning to one side	19
3	Spies and secret agents	27
4	Elevating the combative spirit	35
5	To better serve the people	45
6	Counterrevolutionaries	65
7	Rectification, the prelude	75
8	The anti-rightist campaign	89
9	In the great northern wasteland	105
10	The three bitter years	125
11	The cultural revolution	133
12	Cowpen	143
13	In prison	157
14	Shanxi revisited	165
15	In the bosom of the party	173
16	Interviewing Ding Ling	187
17	The America that she saw	215
18	Eradicating spiritual pollution	235
19	Deathbed politics	253
20	The journal China	269
21	Epilogue	277
App. I	Letter from Ding Ling to Cao Yumei	289
App. II	Letter to Shanxi Press in care of Peng Fumin	291