Person of the Week: Murong Xuecun
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Novelists Throw Spotlight on China’s Past and Present
At The Telegraph, Tom Phillip’s takes a look at novelist Yan Lianke’s most recent...
‘I Am China’ Asks: How Far Should An Artist Go?
NPR has published a review of Xiaolu Guo’s newly released novel I Am China: In an...
Chan Koonchung: Five Stereotypes of Tibet
The Fat Years author Chan Koonchung’s latest novel, The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the...
China’s Censorship Leverage
Reader’s Digest has removed Australian novelist LA Larkin’s Thirst from its anthology...
Salman Rushdie, Murong Xuecun on Censorship
British Indian author Salman Rushdie became an icon of free expression after his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses garnered him a fatwā from Ayatollah Khomeini, followed by countless death threats. Coinciding with the release of the...
Murakami on Islands Dispute, Rushdie on Ai Weiwei
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has commented on the tense stand-off between China and Japan over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. Murakami wrote in the Asahi Shimbun that (from AFP): “When a territorial issue ceases to be a...
CRI: Li Shasha: Rural Writer, Teen Spirit
From CRI, via China.org: In a Guangzhou-based newspaper’s ranking of Chinese writers born in the 1980s, Li Shasha climbed over big names such as Han Han, Chunshu and Guo Jingming to reach the top of the tree. Other young writers are referred to as “Linglei,” a word coined by Time Magazine to describe China’s rebellious […]
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