Hunger Trilogy

Download or read book Hunger Trilogy written by Ruowang Wang and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1991-04-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after being imprisoned as a pro-democracy activist in the wake of the Tiananmen incident of spring 1989. Wang recounts three episodes of extreme hardship in his life: incarceration in a Guomindang jail during the 1930s for his communist activism, on the run from Japanese troops during the 1940s in a bleak part of Shandong Province, and imprisonment as a "rightist" in Shanghai during the 1960s cultural revolution. The central theme of the three stories is extreme deprivation and "Hunger."