Zhang Kangkang

Zhang Kangkang (born July 3 1950, Hangzhou) is a Chinese writer.

She is married to fellow writer Lu Jiamin, who attained international fame with his 2004 novel "Wolf Totem".citation|last=Hill|first=Justin|authorlink=Justin Hill|title=Jiang Rong: The hour of the wolf|periodical=The Independent|date=2008-03-21|accessdate=2008-03-25|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/jiang-rong-the-hour-of-the-wolf-798697.html]

Works

* "The Boundary Line" (1980)
* 'The Right to Love' (1979)
* 'Summer' (1981)
* "The Pale Mists of Dawn" (1980)
* "Aurora Borealis" (1981)
* 'The Wasted Years'. Translated in "Seven Contemporary Chinese Women Writers"
* "Selected Works about Educated Youth". (Includes stories 'The Peony Garden', 'Cruelty' and 'Sandstorm')
* 'The Tolling of a Distant Bell'. Translated by Daniel Bryant in "Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars" 16.3 (1984): 44-51, and "Contemporary Chinese Literature" (see below): 98-105
* "Northern Lights". Chapter 7 translated by Daniel Bryant in "Chinese Literature", Winter 1988, pp.92-102.
* The Invisible Companion. Transl. by Daniel Bryant. Peking: New World Press, 1996.
* 'The Peony Garden'. Translated by Daniel Bryant, "Renditions" 58 (2002): 127-39.

References

Further reading

* Richard King (ed. 2003) "Living With Their Past: Post-Urban Youth Fiction". Hong Kong: Renditions Paperbacks, Research Center for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2003. ISBN 962-7255-26-2
* Daniel Bryant (1989) Making it Happen: Aspects of Narrative Method in Zhang Kangkang’s ‘Northern Lights’. In "Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals", ed. Michael Duke, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E.Sharpe, 1989, pp.112-34.
* Contemporary Chinese Literature: an Anthology of Post-Mao Fiction and Poetry, ed. Michael Duke, Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1985

External links

* [http://www.china.org.cn/english/NM-e/87835.htm Profile on china.org.cn]
* [http://www.renditions.org/renditions/authors/zhangkk.html Brief profile on renditions.org]
* [http://www.renditions.org/renditions/samples/s49.html Excerpts from 'Cruelty' (transl. Richard King)]