Zhang Kangkang
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Zhang Kangkang (born as Zhang Kangmei, July 3, 1950, Hangzhou) is a Chinese writer.
She is married to fellow writer Lü Jiamin, who attained international fame with his 2004 novel Wolf Totem.[1]
Works
- The Boundary Line (1975)
- '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.
References
- ↑ Hill, Justin (2008-03-21), "Jiang Rong: The hour of the wolf", The Independent, retrieved 2008-03-25
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
External links
- Profile on china.org.cn
- Brief profile on renditions.org
- Excerpts from 'Cruelty' (transl. Richard King)