《我們仨》分三部分。在第一二部分，楊絳以虛幻的筆法，寫了她的一個萬里長夢。從錢鍾書父女相繼生病，到兩個先後去世。第三部分則回憶了錢鍾書與楊絳結婚、負笈牛津、巴黎、生女、回國後的坎坷、英譯毛澤東著作等幾十年的生活。全書同時附錄他們家庭生活的照片、書信和女兒給錢鍾書的畫相，使到全書充滿溫馨的生活氣息。

我們仨(平)

杨绛

Six chapters from my life "downunder"

Chinese University Press

By now the world is familiar with the disastrous consequences of the ten year period (1966-1976) in China’s history known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The mistakes of Mao Zedong’s later years have been officially acknowledged, and the infamous Gang of Four publicly tried and sentence for their crimes. But on the cultural front the thaw had no sooner come than gone. A campaign against what is regarded as “spiritual pollution” is being waged to inhibit free expression among creative writers. Thousands of scholars, authors, respected professors and academicians, who as a class were the most persecuted in what some observers called China’s “holocaust,” are back at their respective stations, bent over the task of modernization. For understandable reasons, few have written candidly about their experiences during the Cultural Revolution. Yang Jiang is an outstanding exception. In this memoir she give a poignant account of the more than two years she and her husband were sent “downunder” to the barren countryside for reeducation through labor. Yang Jiang touches upon any horrendous acts only in passing, or by indirection; mainly she relates in well-tempered tones the everyday incidents at their “cadre school” which add up to a harrowing tale. Patterned after Shen Fu’s “Six Chapters of a Floating Life,” a minor classic of the Qing dynasty, Six Chapters form My Life ‘Downunder’ is a testimony of remarkable sophistication, and at the same time a powerful indictment of the madness of ignorant, totalitarian rule.. The author writes in a subtle, almost allegorical style, letting the reader share in her skepticism, disappointment, and frustration with the people, or the system, responsible for what was done to her family and her fellow victims. More in sorrow than in anger, here and there with a touch of wry humor, she records the backwardness and distrust of the peasants who were their “masters”; the utter waste of human resources; the vicious nature of political campaigns and the people involved in them; and, above all, the devotion between husband and wife which kept them going throughout their ordeal. While describing a society in one of its darkest moments, Yang Jiang reaffirms the endurance of humanity. Although Yang Jiang lives in Beijing, Six Chapters from My Life ‘Downunder’ first appeared in a Hong Kong magazine in April 1981, and was published in book form there in the following month, attracting wide attention. it was published in the People’s Republic of China later that year. The edition sold out quickly and no subsequent printings have been available. The present English translation, first published in the journal “Renditions,” is issued here in slightly revised form and with the addition of footnotes and background notes.

Six Chapters from My Life "Downunder"

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

University of Washington Press

A Cadre School Life: Six Chapters

Readers Intl

Baptism (Chinese Edition)

People's Literature Publishing House

At the Edge of Life: Self Q&A (Revised and Enlarged Edition) is a collection of proses full of wise thought and interest written by Yang Jiang at the age of 96. By thinking about the essential issues of destiny, life and death, body and soul, she points out that the value of life lies in self-cultivation and self-improvement according to the principle of ''spiritual conscience''. With the unique and profound experience, she points out the right way for those who are helpless and confused due to the lack of belief.

At the Edge of Life: Self Q&A (Revised and Enlarged Edition) (Chinese Edition)

The Commercial Press

A Family of Three consists of two parts. The first part depicts the deep affection between the family members in rough times in the form of dreams, while the second, in simple but touching language, records the bitter-sweetness in the life of the couple, Yang Jiang and Qian Zhongshu.The abundant experience of the family and affection between family members can serve as a model for a harmonious family.

A Family of Three (Chinese Edition)

SDX Joint Publishing Company

We Three (Deluxe version) (hardcover)

生活·读书·新知三联书店

(This version is out of print, please search for the new version ISBN 9787108063106) 'Us Three' describes in a simple and clean but profound way, 92 years old Yang Jiang's memories of her daughter, Qian Yuan, whom she lost, and her husband Qian Zhongshu, recollecting those happy and hard times of the family of three, and their days of love and pain. The moving story of the family of three proves: Family is life's best shelter.

Us Three (Chinese Edition) (This version is out of print, please search for the new version ISBN 9787108063106)

This book is the memoir of a family life written by Yang Jiang, the wife of Qian Zhongshu. At the age of 92, Yang Jiang attentively recorded every aspect of trials and hardships from 63 years of their unique family and formed a memoir: 'The Three of Us'.

The Three of Us (Hardcover) (Chinese Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

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