Wang Xiaobo was born in 1952. From 1968 to 1970, he worked on a farm in Yunnan, China, as an 'educated' youth. He published Golden Age in 1992, first in Taiwan, but publication in China soon followed, where it was an immediate success, still topping bestseller lists today. Wang Xiaobo died of a heart attack in 1997, at the age of forty-four.
Pleasure of Thinking is a very captivating book. Wang Xiaobo's
unique blend of rationality, serenity, candor, and sense of humour
serves as an embodiment of the liberalism he ardently believes in.
Such expression stands as the archenemy of autocracy, for in
autocratic societies, all the regime's endeavors aim to eradicate
any fertile ground where liberalism might flourish
*Ai Weiwei*
An ironist, in the vein of Kurt Vonnegut, with a piercing eye for
the intrusion of politics into private life… Long after his death,
of a heart attack, at the age of forty-four, Wang’s views still
circulate among fans like a secret handshake
*New Yorker*
Consistently insightful and often charming . . . A wide-ranging,
humorous, often sharp collection
*Kirkus Reviews*
Admired for his cynicism, irony, humor, readers and critics around
the world now widely regard Wang Xiaobo as one of the most
important modern Chinese authors . . . His [writing is] considered
crucial to understanding China's recent past . . . Wang now rivals
the World War II-era Hong Kong writer Zhang Ailing as the most
popular modern Chinese author
*New York Review of Books*
Wang Xiaobo was arguably the most influential intellectual of the
post-Tiananmen generation, a nonchalant provocateur as well as an
unconventional, anti-authoritarian thinker whose writing has stood
the test of time
*author of MINJIAN*
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