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The woman back from Moscow : in pursuit of beauty / Ha Jin.

Jin, Ha, 1956- (author.).

Summary:

"Through the life of a remarkable woman -- based on pioneering stage director Sun Weishi (1921-1968) -- this epic novel immerses us in the multifaceted history of China's Communist Party. Sun Weishi was educated in Moscow and when she returned to China she produced the works of Chekov, Gogol, and other socially progressive dramas. However, when the cultural revolution began in 1966, she was persecuted, arrested, and eventually died in prison."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781635423778 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xv, 719 pages ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2023]
Subject: Sun, Weishi > Fiction.
Zhongguo gong chan dang > Fiction.
Theatrical producers and directors > China > Biography > Fiction.
China > History > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Ha Jin grew up in mainland China and served in the People’s Liberation Army in his teens for five years. After leaving the army, he worked for three years at a railroad company in a remote northeastern city, Jiamusi, and then went to college in Harbin, majoring in English. He has published in English nine novels, four story collections, four volumes of poetry, a book of essays, and a biography of Li Bai. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for Fiction, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Ha Jin is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor in English and Creative Writing at Boston University, and he has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His writing has been translated into more than thirty languages.


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