Word: jo-hsi
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...Chen Jo-hsi; Indiana University...
...writers were silenced. Bookstores carried mainly the sententious classics of Maoism. That great modern political upheaval, the Cultural Revolution, should have provided the raw material for a thousand creative volumes. It produced not a single novel, story, play or opera published in China. Indeed, were it not for Chen Jo-hsi's collection of poignant stories set in the China of the '60s and early '70s, it is very likely that the entire epoch, during which the lives of hundreds of millions of people were profoundly shaken, would never have found its way into contemporary literature...
...Chen Jo-hsi was born on Taiwan in 1938. After several years in the U.S., she emigrated to Communist China. She arrived in 1966 and left, disillusioned, in 1973. While in China, she never wrote a line. But once out, she set to work: all the traumas and hardships and lost hopes of her seven years on the mainland are in these stories of ordinary people...