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“Roses and thorns : the second blooming of the Hundred flowers in Chinese fiction, 1979-1980” (Publication, 1984)

Year

1984

Text

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). (Link9)

Type

Publication

Contributors (1)

Link, E. Perry  (Gaffney, S.C. 1944-) : Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Subjects

Literature : China : Prose : General / Periods : China : People's Republic (1949-) / Sinology and Asian Studies : United States of America

Chronology Entries (1)

# Year Text Linked Data
1 1974 ca.-1976 ca. 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.