The opus magnum of a writer who has experienced the whole period of the communist regime in China, Disenchantment is filled with scenes and stories oozing authenticity. --- Michel Bonnin The author deconstructs the "enchantment" of ideology and reveals the brutal political violence of this period through the backgrounds and stories of her characters. --- Su Xiaokang A stellar contribution to Chinese literature and the understanding of contemporary Chinese history. --- Michael Duke A courageous and important work which deserves to be published in the Chinese-speaking world and beyond. --- Richard King An epic of an extraordinary age of great transformations and convulsions. --- Bernadette Y. Li A Chinese version of Doctor Zhivago. --- David Rong Author Zhang Kangkang, born in Hangzhou in 1950, Zhang Kangkang traces her ancestral roots to Jiangmen, Guangdong Province. After graduating from high school in 1966, Zhang was sent down to the countryside as an "educated youth" in June 1969, laboring at a farm in the Great Northern Wilderness for eight years during the Cultural Revolution. Transferred to the Heilongjiang Provincial Writers' Association in 1979, she has been a professional writer ever since. Ranked a National First-Class Writer, Zhang Kangkang now lives in Beijing and has served as vice-chair of the Chinese Writers' Association, among other positions. Zhang Kangkang was awarded a gold medal by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization in 2015.
