We were at the peak of these times—there was a feeling of being abandoned, as if we had become orphans of the times. —Bei Dao
With essays from:
Xu Bing．Bei Dao．Zhai Yongming．Zhang Langlang．Han Shaogong
Ah Cheng．Wang Anyi．Li Ling．Deng Gang．Wang Xiaoni．Huang Ziping
This is a powerful collection of essays that re-examines a pivotal and often misunderstood decade in modern Chinese history. Originally edited by acclaimed poet Bei Dao and literary critic Li Tuo, this book pulls back the curtain on a decade often seen as a void between Mao’s rigid control and the explosion of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms. But for this generation, the ’70s was a crucible—the time they came of age and fought to find their own voices.
Many of the writers and artists represented here were sent to the countryside as “educated urban youth.” They were both participants in and victims of the Cultural Revolution. Through a series of unfiltered portraits and vivid impressions, this book reveals what it was like to be young, restless, and searching for meaning in a society of conformity. The essays also reveal that the foundations of the “new enlightenment” of the 1980s were laid in the quiet defiance of the ’70s. As Eliot Weinberger notes in the foreword, those individuals, the “orphans of the times,” would lead a revolution within the revolution.
Bei Dao, the pseudonym of Zhao Zhenkai, is a world-renowned poet, a central figure of China’s “Misty Poets” movement, a co-founder and editor of the literary magazine Jintian (Today), and the founder of the Hong Kong Poetry Festival Foundation. He is also an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Li Tuo is a prominent writer, critic, and editor in contemporary China. He is among the leading Chinese intellectuals who have helped shape the post-Mao cultural landscape. He served as the executive editor of the journal Beijing wenxue (Beijing Literature) in the 1980s and became the founding editor of the journal Shijie (Horizons) in the 1990s and 2000s.
Theodore Huters is a professor emeritus in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was chief editor of Renditions from 2010 until the journal’s closing in 2024.
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