Research Catalog

Title

F : Hu Feng's prison years / Mei Zhi ; edited and translated by Gregor Benton.

Author

Mei, Zhi

Publication

London : Verso, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Benton, Gregor

Description

vi, 326 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Hu Feng, "counterrevolutionary" leader of a banned literary school, spent 25 years in Chinese Communist Party prison system. But back in the early days of Communist China he was among the party's chief 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 incarceration for many years. 'F' is her account of that time, beginning 10 years after Hu Feng's initial arrest, as she navigates the party's Byzantine prison bureaucracy, searching for his whereabouts.

Uniform Title

Hu Feng chen yuan lu. English

Alternative Title

Hu Feng chen yuan lu.

Subject

• Hu, Feng, 1902-1985 > Imprisonment
• 1900-1999
• Authors, Chinese > 20th century > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "This English-language edition first published by Verso 2013"--T.p. verso.
• "First published as Hu Feng chen yuan lu"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE PAST EVENTS DISPERSE LIKE SMOKE -- 1. It Started with a Letter -- 2. Reunion -- 3. A Gaol Visit, Not a Family Visit -- 4. The Third Meeting -- 5. Warm Current, Cold Wave -- 6. An Unpredictable Future -- 7. An Uncompleted Mission -- 8. At Around the Time of the Sentencing -- 9. Welcoming the Prisoner Home -- 10. Family Reunion -- 11. Visiting in Beijing, Heart of the Ancestral Country -- 12. Farewell Beijing, Farewell Dear Ones -- pt. TWO LIVING WITH A PRISONER -- 13. An Uncertain Future -- 14. First Lesson -- 15. Ominous Portents -- 16. The Tempest -- 17. A Bleak and Chilly Autumn Wind Arises -- 18. Snake and Mouse -- 19. A Serious Illness -- 20. Convalescing Deep in the Mountains -- 21. Helping One Another in Time of Need -- 22. Learning How to Plant Tomatoes -- 23. Taken Away Yet Again -- 24. Hoping -- pt. THREE BEHIND HIGH WALLS -- 25. Escorted by Snowflakes -- 26. Is It Really Him? -- 27. Terror and Confusion -- 28. A Turn for the Better in Our Lives -- 29. A New Beginning -- 30. `Chopping Down to No Avail, Disentangling into Disarray' -- 31. Hope, Distant Hope -- 32. A Bolt from the Blue -- 33. Taking Part in the Exposure Campaign -- 34. In the Reform Through Labour Hospital -- 35. Waiting -- 36. Emerging from Behind the High Walls.

ISBN

• 9781844679676 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1844679675 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9781844679683 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012038655

OCLC

• 783163508
• SCSB-11056619

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library