Leaden Wings

Published in 1980, Heavy Wings focuses on the Morning Light Auto Works in Beijing, a microcosm of the ongoing struggle between reformers who want to allow a measure of freedom and party hardliners clinging to the ideology that justifies their privilege and power. It provoked a storm of controversy with its frank portrayal of party corruption and mismanagement, its eloquent feminism, and its ringing defense of individualism.

• Author
• Zhang Jie, Howard Goldblatt

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 308

• Publisher
• Virago

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780860687641

• Settings
• Beijing

• Genres
• china, politics, asia, fiction

• Release date
• 1987