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F - Hu Feng's Prison Years (Hardcover)
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F - Hu Feng's Prison Years (Hardcover)
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Hu Feng, the 'counterrevolutionary' leader of a banned literary
school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party's
prison system. But back in the Party's early days, he was one of
its best known literary theoreticians and critics-at least until
factional infighting, and his short fuse, made him persona non
grata among the establishment. His wife, Mei Zhi, shared his
incarceration for many years. F is her account of that time,
beginning ten years after her and Hu Feng's initial arrest. She
herself was eventually released, after which she navigated the
party's Byzantine prison bureaucracy searching for his whereabouts.
Having finally found him, she voluntarily returned to gaol to care
for him in his rage and suffering, watching his descent into
madness as the excesses of the Cultural Revolution took their toll.
Both an intimate portrait of Mei Zhi's life with Hu Feng and a
stark account of the prison system and life under Mao, F is at once
beautiful and harrowing. With support from English PEN This book
has been selected to receive financial assistance from English
PEN's Writers in Translation programme supported by Bloomberg.
English PEN exists to promote literature and its understanding,
uphold writers' freedoms around the world, campaign against the
persecution and imprisonment of writers for stating their views,
and promote the friendly co-operation of writers and free exchange
of ideas. For more information visit www.englishpen.org.
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