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Year

1974 ca.-1976 ca.

Text

Perry Link : Western fiction was not available publicly, although Jiang Qing did announce a short list of books of “recommended reading” that included Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens, The scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The red and the black by Stendhal, The count of Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, père and Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell. These books were available only to those with privileged access to "internal circulation" (classified) materials.

Mentioned People (1)

Jiang, Qing  (Zhucheng, Shandong 1914-1991 Beijing) : Gattin von Mao Zedong, Politikerin, Schauspielerin

Subjects

Literature : Occident : Great Britain : General / Literature : Occident : United States of America : General

Documents (1)

# Year Bibliographical Data Type / Abbreviation Linked Data
1 1984 Roses and thorns : the second blooming of the Hundred flowers in Chinese fiction, 1979-1980. Perry Link, editor. (Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1984). S. 18. Publication / Link9