Description
"Wang Ping is a fearless, phenomenal writer."--Louise Erdrich
Author: Wang Ping
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.54h x 5.03w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9781566891950
ISBN10: 1566891957
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
Author: Wang Ping
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 04/01/2007
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.54h x 5.03w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9781566891950
ISBN10: 1566891957
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years spent farming in a mountain village commune, she attended Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the United States, earning her PhD from New York University. She is the acclaimed author of the short story collection American Visa, the novel Foreign Devil, two poetry collections: Of Flesh & Spirit and The Magic Whip, and the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China.