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Biographical note
Fang Fang is the pen name of Wang Fang, one of contemporary China’s most celebrated writers. Her books in English include Soft Burial, also translated by Michael Berry. Fang Fang’s account of the COVID-19 lockdown in her hometown, Wuhan Diary, was translated into twenty languages and garnered critical acclaim from major media outlets around the world.Michael Berry is professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of several books, including Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke (2022) and Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary (2022). He is also the translator of numerous books, including Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City (2020).
Berry’s beautiful and accurate translation of <i>The Running Flame</i> will allow many more readers to gain deeper insight into contemporary Chinese women’s lived realities. This work is an extremely valuable contribution to the body of texts by Chinese women writers that exist in English translation.
- Géraldine Fiss, University of California, San Diego,
This novel by one of China's most famous and incisive authors is a heartfelt but unflinching look into the lives of village women in the postsocialist People's Republic. It excavates the tangled emotions connecting money, marriage, and violence and reveals the machinery of gender as experienced by the rural poor. At the heart of the book, its own motivating fire, is a desire for more and better choices for China's young women.
- Nick Admussen, author of <i>Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry</i>,
Fang Fang is a powerful voice in contemporary Chinese literature, recognized for her steadfast attention to the underdogs of society. Through poignant and compassionate storytelling, she delves into the depths of the human condition, challenging readers to confront difficult truths with empathy and understanding.
- Zhang Ling, author of <i>Where Waters Meet</i>,
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Fang Fang is the pen name of Wang Fang, one of contemporary China’s most celebrated writers. Her books in English include Soft Burial, also translated by Michael Berry. Fang Fang’s account of the COVID-19 lockdown in her hometown, Wuhan Diary, was translated into twenty languages and garnered critical acclaim from major media outlets around the world.Michael Berry is professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of several books, including Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke (2022) and Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary (2022). He is also the translator of numerous books, including Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City (2020).