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Yu Jian (1954- ) - "File O"

Part Three - The Post-Mao Era: 1976 - Present

Part Two - 1949-1976: The Revolutionary Era

Zhu Ziqing (1898-1948): ...A patriot and a peace activist, he opposed Chiang Kai-shek, who started the civil war in 1946. He died of hunger in 1948 because he refused to accept food aid from Chiang's backer, the United States.

Part One: 1911 - 1949. It is worth mentioning that the two works that Huang was unable to include in this anthology due, in part, to "unreasonable fees by some English-language publishers", fall within this time period: Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (1943), and Fortress Besieged by Qian Zhongshu (1947). With NYRB Classics for the first and New Directions for the second, I have to wonder.

I've been borderline lusting after this work ever since its publication, and it's great to finally get to it as a segue into this year's Women in Translation Month, which, by the way, will be upon us in a mere week for anyone interested in that sort of endeavor.