Zhang Kangkang
Encyclopedia
Zhang Kangkang is a Chinese
writer.
She is married to fellow writer Lü Jiamin
, who attained international fame with his 2004 novel Wolf Totem
.
China
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writer.
She is married to fellow writer Lü Jiamin
Lu Jiamin
Lü Jiamin is a Chinese writer, most famous for his best-selling 2004 novel Wolf Totem, which he wrote under the pseudonym Jiang Rong. He is married to fellow novelist Zhang Kangkang.-Early life:...
, who attained international fame with his 2004 novel Wolf Totem
Wolf Totem
Wolf Totem is a semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a young student from Beijing who finds himself sent down to the countryside of Inner Mongolia in 1967, at the height of China's Cultural Revolution...
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Works
- The Boundary Line (1980)
- 'The Right to Love' (1979)
- 'Summer' (1981)
- The Pale Mists of Dawn (1980)
- Aurora Borealis (1981)
- 'The Wasted Years'. Translated in Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers
- Selected Works about Educated Youth. (Includes stories 'The Peony Garden', 'Cruelty' and 'Sandstorm')
- 'The Tolling of a Distant Bell'. Translated by Daniel Bryant in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 16.3 (1984): 44-51, and Contemporary Chinese Literature (see below): 98-105
- Northern Lights. Chapter 7 translated by Daniel Bryant in Chinese Literature, Winter 1988, pp. 92–102.
- The Invisible Companion. Transl. by Daniel Bryant. Peking: New World Press, 1996.
- 'The Peony Garden'. Translated by Daniel Bryant, Renditions 58 (2002): 127-39.
Further reading
- Richard King (ed. 2003) Living With Their Past: Post-Urban Youth Fiction. Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks, Research Center for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2003. ISBN 962-7255-26-2
- Daniel Bryant (1989) Making it Happen: Aspects of Narrative Method in Zhang Kangkang’s ‘Northern Lights’. In Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals, ed. Michael Duke, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe, 1989, pp. 112–34.
- Contemporary Chinese Literature: an Anthology of Post-Mao Fiction and Poetry, ed. Michael Duke, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1985