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Zhang Lijia: Socialism is Great!

Zhang Lijia is an author and journalist who spent most of the 1980s as a worker in a missile factory in Nanjing.

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Ah Cheng: I’m like a plucked chicken

Ah Cheng (阿城) talks to Oriental Outlook (瞭望东方周刊).

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Super-agent Toby Eady on the importance of agents for Chinese authors

Guest contributor Toby Eady is a London-based literary agent who represented Jung Chang (Wild Swans) and Xinran Xue (The Good Women of China). Chinese Authors – beware when fools rush in I have a Chinese author whose work I and … Continue reading

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Work plans for Chinese writers

Zhang Yueran (张悦然) signs with the Beijing Writers’ Association, and as a result has to plan out her contract work. Danwei looks at the work plans that Mao Dun (茅盾), Cao Yu (曹禺), and Lao She (老舍) wrote up in the 1950s.

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Who’s tops in Chinese lit?

An online ranking of Chinese-language authors puts Han Han ahead of Su Dongpo. Not a problem, say Ge Fei and Cai Jun.

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