Tag Archives: fiction

Harvest Season: Q&A with novelist Chris Taylor

Posted on 2010-10-25 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Chris Taylor is the author of Harvest Season, his debut novel set in southwestern China and published earlier this year by Earnshaw Books. He recently answered Danwei’s questions about how he came to write his first work of fiction.

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Pulp adventure novels: textbooks for crime

Posted on 2009-02-06 by Joel Martinsen

After novice graverobbers imitate ‘Ghosts Blow Out the Lights,’ Tianfu Morning Post speaks to author Tianxia Bachang, who makes the astonishing admission that 80% of his content was entirely made-up.

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Don’t write the same old stories

Posted on 2008-08-09 by Joel Martinsen

Editor of Stories magazine (故事会) tells writers what sort of topics they shouldn’t write about.

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Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay

Posted on 2008-07-31 by Lydia

This memoir piece is by Xujun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming’.

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Mr Wu and Family, by Pallavi Aiyar

Posted on 2008-07-21 by Jeremy Goldkorn

One of communism’s lingering legacies in China was a basic belief in the dignity of labour and to me it was this belief that created the broadest gulf between India and China; a chasm ultimately much harder to bridge than that of GDP growth rates or flashy infrastructure.

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