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Realism’s Return: Yu Hua’s ‘China in Ten Words’ Reviewed

Perry Link reviews Yu Hua’s ‘China in Ten Words’ which, in common with his earlier writing and in contrast with many Western views, portrays contemporary China as “an outgrowth of the Mao era”. From The New Republic: To my eye, the most poignant of Yu’s observations on the Mao legacy are those that describe the death of empathy. He writes that “two scenes [from the Cul