Embodying Pain: Chinese Women Writers’ Articulations and Memories of Mao-Era Suffering

This project explores Chinese women writers’ articulations and recollections of pain from the 1950s through the 1980s. The focus is on heretofore neglected or understudied life writing by women who had become established cultural workers before the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, and had witnessed or suffered punishment in the mid- or late 1950s.