Synopses & Reviews
In
Ah, Blue Bird, Lu Xing'er, one of China's most prolific writers, focuses her penetrating gaze on the life of the educated urban youth during and after the Cultural Revolution. She studies the difficulty of coming of age at a time when even the most personal was political by examining both the hidden motivations and the public aspirations of those caught up in the politics of the day.
This tale tells the story of a woman caught between duty to herself, to her country and to her husband. Her convictions are tested as she tries to survive in a complex emotional and physical climate when she finds herself separated from her husband and forced to make difficult decisions about their future together.
Synopsis
Lu Xing'er, one of China's most prolific writers, focuses her penetrating gaze on the life of the educated urban youth during and after the Cultural Revolution.
Synopsis
Lu Xing'er, one of China's most prolific writers, focuses her penetrating gaze on the life of the educated urban youth during and after the Cultural Revolution.
About the Author
Born in Shanghai in 1949, Lu Xing'er was sent to live in Heilongjiag in China's far north in 1968, while still a student in middle school. There she worked as a tractor driver and wrote for a small newspaper. In 1978 she moved to Beijing and studied dramatic literature at the Central Academy of Drama. She went on to become a playwright at the China Children's Art Theatre. Eventually she returned to Shanghai and worked as a writer and as the Executive Editor-in-Chief of the monthly literary magazine, Hai-Shang Cultural World.