Yang Huang

Autore di Living Treasures

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Yang Huang grew up in China's Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her debut novel, Living Treasures, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction, and her essays and short stories have appeared in The Margins, Eleven Eleven, Asian Pacific American Journal, The mostra altro Evansville Review, Futures, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, and Nuvein. She lives in the Bay Area and works for the University of California, Berkeley. mostra meno

Opere di Yang Huang

Popolari Recenti

Living Treasures (2014) 56 copie

My Old Faithful: Stories (Juniper Prize for Fiction) (2018) 16 copie

My Good Son: A Novel (2021) 14 copie

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Rulers and Ruled in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China (2021) — Collaboratore — 7 copie

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia (Metaforms) (2018) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1971-06-13
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Taixian, Jiangsu, China
Luogo di residenza: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
Istruzione: University of Arizona (MFA)
Boston College (MA)
Florida Atlantic University (BA, BS)
Attività lavorative: information technologist
novelist
short-story writer
Premi e riconoscimenti: "Bellwether Prize finalist", "nominated for the Pushcart Prize"
Agente: Barbara Braun Associates, Inc.
Breve biografia: Yang Huang is the author of the novel Living Treasures, a Bellwether Prize finalist. Born and raised in mainland China, she came to the U.S. shortly after taking part in the 1989 Democracy Movement. Her short stories and a feature-length screenplay have appeared in Asian Pacific American Journal, The Evansville Review, Futures, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, Nuvein, and Stories for Film. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and works as a computer engineer for U.C. Berkeley and as a writer by vocation. To learn more about Yang and her writing, visit www.yanghuang.com or follow her on Twitter: @yangwrites.

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Living Treasures di Yang Huang

Set in 1989 China during and after the Tiananmen Square massacre, when the one-child law was being strictly enforced, Yang Huang's LIVING TREASURES, has tremendous potential to be a powerful novel. Unfortunately, for me at least, it doesn't quite succeed. Her story of Bao, a young (18) university student studying law, who falls in love with a soldier, becomes pregnant and is spirited off to the country by her parents to have an abortion and live with her grandparents, where she becomes involved with a young family attempting to defy the one-child law - it all just doesn't quite ring true. Despite the fact that abortions and involuntary sterilizations - often botched by 'barefoot doctors' - are common, there is, overlaying it all, an air of 'niceness' and a kind of fairy tale, Nancy Drew-ishness that, in the end, makes Bao's story not very believable. And the awkwardly inserted Panda metaphor and her aborted baby she calls 'Soybean' just made me wince repeatedly, as did the "riding to the rescue" in a ridiculous disguise caper. And way too many descriptions of meals, food prep and the oft-repeated "Food is heaven." (What is that all about anyway?) And the tacked-on, too sweet, 'happily-ever-after' ending. I can't believe I actually read the whole thing. Recommended, I guess, for mature teenage girls and a YA audience.

- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (altro)

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TimBazzett | 11 altre recensioni | Jun 22, 2023 |

My Old Faithful: Stories (Juniper Prize for Fiction) di Yang Huang

Questa recensione è stata scritta per gli Omaggi dei Membri di LibraryThing .

My old faithful is a beautiful book! I loved the glimpse into Chinese culture! I love the characters too! This is a great book! Highly Recommend!

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KristenJenellKasten | Sep 4, 2018 |

Living Treasures di Yang Huang

This is a very well written and very touching story, about a young lady named Gu Bao who is studying to be a lawyer so she can protect people against government abuse in China. Her life takes a turn during the student's demonstration against the government in Tiananmen Square in June 1989. She becomes involved with a soldier, and her story develops at a nice pace. Her struggle dealing with her parents over an abortion, her move to live with her grandparents for a while, and the development of a friendship with an expectant mother who is hiding in the mountains from one-child policy enforcers to safely deliver her baby, all these situations are richly described, exploiting all the psychological angles, showing the struggle in Bao's young mind to do the right thing.
This novel makes us wish that this was really just a work of fiction and nothing that is described here really did happen in China, but I believe that this is only a wish. When a government tries to repress the free will of its people, it loses legitimacy and from there on, does not represent the people's will anymore.
I recommend this book to the permanent library of all readers who enjoy a very well written work of fiction, on a very timely subject, that will keep them entertained for hours.
I received a copy of this book from the author through the publisher (thanks, Simone from Harvard Square Editions!) and I was not requested to write a positive review. Opinions expressed here are my own.… (altro)

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rmattos | 11 altre recensioni | Jan 23, 2016 |

Living Treasures di Yang Huang

Questa recensione è stata scritta per gli Omaggi dei Membri di LibraryThing .

Living Treasures is a beautifully written story of Gu Bao, a succesful university student in China who finds herself in a situation that could ruin everything she, her parents, and Chinese society hold dear - she gets pregnant. Her transformation from a naive, quiet and reserved girl into a brave and determined young woman is truly wonderful to experience. Bao's determination to overcome her situation leads her to a meaningful and selfless decision; one that surprises everyone including Bao herself.

The story provides a whole new insight into China's politics and culture that is both disturbing and intriguing, and allows the reader to experience life from the perspective of the Chinese people. I look forward to reading more of Yuan Huang in the future.

Note: I received this book from Ms. Huang through Goodreads in exchange for an honest review.… (altro)

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TracyCampbell | 11 altre recensioni | May 30, 2015 |

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