Description: Bo Yang is a well-known and prolific writer in Taiwan, Born in Kaifeng, Honan Province, he moved in the 1950s to Taiwan, where his writing career has spanned more than thirty years, His life and experience both in China's mainland and Taiwan have offered him rich material for his creative work, and he is successful in exposing and attacking this dark side of society. From March 7, 1968 to April 1, 1977 he was imprisoned by Taiwan authorities. After his release, he has become one of the most highly respected writers in Taiwan. To date Bo Yang has produced fifty two volumes, including works of fiction, essays, reportage, historical studies and poetry. He is currently engaged in adapting historical chronicles from classical to modern Chinese. This book of poems was completed during Bo Yang's confinement of over nine years in prison. He gives the reader a penetrating glimpse of both the author's inner spirit and the face he showed to the world, while illuminating the national background to this period.
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Book Title: Poems of a Period
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Joint Publishing
Original Language: Chinese
Intended Audience: Adults
7 1/2" x 5 1/2": 155 paages
Publication Year: 1986
Type: Literary Criticism
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Bo Yang
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Poetry
Topic: inprisonment, Taiwan, Self Reflection, Guo Yidong, Political Prisoners, Taiwan Dissident
Country/Region of Manufacture: Hong Kong
