Renditions no. 68 (Autumn 2007) Janet Ng's introduction draws comparisons

Janet Ng's introduction draws comparisons with Western women's experience while making clear the authors' achievements in the development of modern Chinese literature

are consummate literary studies of human dignity and warmth surviving in a grey wilderness of alienation

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The most representative of the poems

Renditions no. 68 (Autumn 2007) Janet Ng's introduction draws comparisonsLeaping to Diaster: Village Literature and the Great Leap Forward This collection presents opposing pictures of rural China during the Great Leap Forward (1958 1960), the grand delusion that led to the worst famine of the 20th century. Stories and poems written at the time express boundless, if ill founded, optimism for a communist utopia. Two decades later, fiction about its aftermath reveals its tragic impact on the peasantry. Set against the