Zhang Kangkang

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang.
Zhang Kangkang
Chinese: 张抗抗

Zhang Kangkang (born July 3, 1950, Hangzhou) is a Chinese writer.

She is married to fellow writer Lu Jiamin, who attained international fame with his 2004 novel Wolf Totem.[1]

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[edit] 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.

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[edit] 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

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