TY - BOOK ID - 82711055 TI - Hunger trilogy AU - Wang, Ruowang AU - Kasoff, Ira E. AU - Rubin, Kyna PY - 1991 SN - 087332739X 1336138386 0873327403 1315703602 131746835X 1317468341 PB - Armonk Sharpe DB - UniCat KW - S16/0430 KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Modern novels: texts and translations KW - Autobiographical fiction, Chinese. KW - Hunger KW - Prisons KW - Wang, Ruowang KW - Imprisonment. KW - China KW - Social life and customs UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:82711055 AB - This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a ""rightist"" in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories ER -