March 14, 2014 10:13 AM
CDT Bookshelf
Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: “I Am Guilty”
In his first interview since receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in December, Mo Yan talks to Der Spiegel’s Bernhard Zand about his work, his political views, and his critics. SPIEGEL: Unspeakable things happen in many of your novels. In “The Garlic Ballads,” for example, a pregnant woman, already in labor, hangs herself. Still, “Frog” seems to be your sternest book. Is that why it took so long to write? Mo: I carried the idea for this book ...February 27, 2013 8:19 PM
CDT Bookshelf: “A Wen Yiduo Poem Is Like a Jewel”
Wen Yiduo, poet, professor, and staunch critic of the Kuomintang (KMT), was unafraid to speak his mind. Born to a wealthy family in 1899, he came ...
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Tom Carter
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking 35,000 miles across all 33 Chinese provinces ...
February 13, 2014 2:23 AM
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Bookmaker Colette Fu
Former Fulbright scholar Colette Fu has been constructing pop-up books for the past decade. She has designed pop-ups for award-winning stop motion ...
January 8, 2014 1:24 PM
- Daughter of Lucian Pye on the China of Her Mind
- CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Karla Simon
- Five Pounds of Facts on Chinese History
- CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Sam Crane
- What Might Have Been: “Fortress Besieged”...
- How Resource Scarcity Constrains China
- CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Rachel Stern
- Party Time: Quoting and Misquoting Rowan Callick
- Of Literature and Laureates, Translations and Trends...
- Michael Meyer: See You Again, Old Beijing
- Han Han: This Generation
- Chan Koonchung on Orwell, Huxley and China
- Peter Hessler’s ‘Strange Stones’ Reviewed...
- A Literary Guide to China
- Prison of the Mind: Liao Yiwu’s Memoir of Incarceration...
- Revisiting Leslie Chang’s “Factory Girls”
- Ai Weiwei’s Eighty-One Days
- Book Recommendations From Ma Jian
