ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig12_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Li Hangyu was born in 1957 in Hangzhou after his parents moved there from Shandong Province in the early 1950s. Despite the fact that he is almost ten years younger than most of the writers in this book, he has gone through a similarly traumatic experience. During the Cultural Revolution, while still a student in elementary school, he was forced to attend struggle sessions against his father, a middle-ranking cadre. In 1974 he was prevented from attending senior middle school because of his father's "crime." Without schooling and with no prospect of getting a job, he went to join his older brother (the literary critic Li Qingxi) in the Great Barren North in Heilongjiang Province. In the following year he obtained a transfer to Xiaoshan County, along the Qiantang River, where his older sister was rusticated, so that she could return to Hangzhou. In 1977 he enrolled in Hangzhou University to major in Chinese literature, and after graduation he was assigned to work at a local broadcasting station in Fuyang County (Zhejiang Province). Currently he is a professional writer in Hangzhou.
