Lit in Translation

抒情年代

Shuqing niandai

“The Lyrical Years” (title translated by AI)

Pan Jing (潘婧)

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In Beijing between the late 1960s and the mid-1970s, small circles of outcast young people drift through the cracks of the Cultural Revolution, keeping an intellectual life alive in secret.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Genres
Coming of age, Politics (assigned by AI)
Set in
China, late 1960s–mid-1970s
First published
2002 by Writers Publishing House