Yu Hua on China’s Wealth Gap
Chinese author Yu Hua, who recently published a collection of essays titled “We Live in a...
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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...
Goodreads: Interview with Yu Hua
Goodreads interviews author Yu Hua about his new novel The Seventh Day: A Novel, his childhood...
Voting in China, a Distant Dream
In the New York Times, Yu Hua writes that most Chinese, including himself, have never even seen an...
China’s Leaders, Behind the Masks
In The New Emperors: Power and the Princelings in China, the University of Sydney’s Kerry...
Yu Hua: Follow the Money
At The New York Times, Yu Hua reports a literature professor’s suggestion, “based more...
Yu Hua on Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution
In recent years, many individuals who contributed to the systematic abuses of the Cultural...
Yu Hua: China’s “Absurd” History of Class Struggle
At The New York Times, writer Yu Hua describes how Chinese people today avoid the language of...
ChinaFile Interview with Yu Hua
At ChinaFile Columbia University graduate student Zhang Xiaoran interviews writer Yu Hua via email...
Censorship and Innovation in China’s Social Media
As has been noted by prominent users and statistically proven by recent studies, the social...
Yu Hua: The Hijacking of Chinese Patriotism
At The New York Times, author Yu Hua uses China’s new East China Sea Air Defense...
Yu Hua: The Challenges of Conveying Absurd Reality
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Megan Shank interviews writer Yu Hua, whose recent book of...
When Filial Piety Is the Law
In a New York Times op-ed, author Yu Hua complains that by compelling regular contact with parents with China’s recently amended “filial piety law”, the Party is using legislation to replace values that it...
Yu Hua: “In China, Power is Arrogant”
For The New York Times, guest columnist and prominent Chinese author Yu Hua laments the inconsistency and lack of transparency in the laws imposed by the Chinese government: If the central government’s decrees are opaque, local...
Yu Hua: Feudal Answers for Modern Problems
While the Communist Party has long-excluded religion from its vision for China, some Chinese officials and common people still hold on to rather feudal beliefs. The well-known author, Yu Hua, tells stories on the New York Times:...
Yu Hua: “Only Proper That My Books Be Pirated”
While he’s “opposed to counterfeiting in all forms,” author Yu Hua claims that he can live with the piracy of his books if it means they end up in the hands of China’s poor. From his guest column in...
Yu Hua: Censorship’s Many Faces
Author Yu Hua explains the different levels of censorship applied to Chinese media—from tightly controlled film, through TV and newspapers, to books—and dissects the varying political and economic considerations that account for...
Masters of Subservience: China’s ‘Bureaucracy Lit’
At The New York Times, NPR’s Louisa Lim examines China’s popular ‘bureaucracy lit’, focusing on former official Wang Xiaofang’s Civil Servant’s Notebook. The genre has recently attracted increased...
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