Chinese Educated Youth Literature

This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC.

Gabriel F. Y. Tsang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Introduction. Questioning the fictional remembrance of bodies past 1. Representing Laboring Bodies from Victims to Heroes 2. Hungry Fictional Bodies as Personal and Cultural Allegories 3. Privatization and Socialization of Impaired/Disabled Bodies 4. Socialism and the Experiment of Writing Female Bodies Conclusion. Back to our own bodies