Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c10.110

v2.c10.110

literary development, various literary thoughts and representative writers in the new period, she published various essays such as *Literary Policy since the Third Plenum: A Decade of Change* (1997), *Comeback of Hundred Flowers in Chinese Literature: 1976-1989* (1998), *Activism of Chinese Women Writers during Reform and Globalization* (2007), etc. Her books on *Literature and Politics in 20ᵗʰ Century China: Issues and Themes* (2005) and *Chinese Women Writers and Gender Discourse 1976-1996* (2008) have on the one hand explored the literary trends of China in the period after 1976. On the other hand, these volumes have analysed some active prominent Chinese writers of this period such as Wang Meng, Zhang Jie, Wang Anyi, Lu Xinhua, Liu Xinwu, Dai Houying, Zhang Xinxin, Can Xue, Liu Suola, Mo Yan, Han Shaogong, etc., from an interdisciplinary perspective. In 2002, Sabaree Mitra also published *Purbadiganter Kabita: Samakaleen tin china kabir ek jhalak* (2002), a collection of contemporary Chinese poetry translated into Bengali, which included annotated translation of poems by Shu Ting, Gu Cheng and Bei Dao.