Wenguang Huang
Wenguang Huang is a Chicago-based writer and translator. His writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Harper’s, the Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Asia Literary Review. Huang is the English translator of The Corpse Walker, God Is Red, and Woman from Shanghai. He grew up in northern China.
All Books By Wenguang Huang
The Little Red Guard
- By: Wenguang Huang
- Narrator: Adam Verner
- Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: August 07, 2012
- Language: English
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In 1973, when Wenguang Huang was eight, his grandmother became obsessed with her own death. Fearing cremation, she appealed to her family to promise to bury her after she’d died. This was in Xi’an, a city in central China, at a time when a national ban on all traditional Chinese practices, including burials, was strictly enforced. But his grandmother was persistent, and two years later, Huang’s father built her a coffin. Over the next fifteen years, the whole family was consumed with planning Grandma’s burial, a regular source of friction and contention, with the constant risk of being caught by the authorities. Years later, Huang came to understand how much the coffin had influenced his upbringing and shaped the lives of everyone in the family.
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