Venue: Theatre 2, 207 Bouverie Street
Presenters: Mr Xin Ye
During the 1960s, the Chinese government dispatched city high school leavers to work on farms and plantations in the countryside. When they were permitted to go home more than a decade later, their spouses and children were forced to remain in the countryside. Ye Xin’s book tells the story of some of those left behind, who decide to travel to Shanghai in search of their birth parents. Join Ye to unravel one of the untold stories of China during the Cultural Revolution.
Ye Xin was born in Shanghai in October 1949. He was sent to Guizhou Province as a zhiqing in 1969 and worked on the construction of the Hunan-Guizhou railway. His novels include High Sierra in Miaoling, The Ages of Idling Away, Family Education, Love Has No Choice and Shanghai Diary. He has won many awards including the October Prize and the National Prize for Best Novel. He is vice-chairman of the Writers’ Association of China and the Writers’ Association of Shanghai, and director of the Institute of Literature of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
The event will be delivered in Mandarin. 访谈语言为中文
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https://events.unimelb.edu.au/events/6823-untold-stories-of-china-a-q-a-in-mandarin
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