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Harvest Season: Q&A with novelist Chris Taylor

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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Wang Gang on English and the Cultural Revolution

Wang Gang (王刚) author of the novel English (英格力士), a best-selling novel based on the author’s childhood in Urumqi, Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution talks to Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn. Film shot and edited by Patrick Carr of Mandarin Film.

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Linda Jaivin on Sexy Beijing

Su Fei of Sexy Beijing talks to China hand and erotic novelist Linda Jaivin.

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The body in the lake

An extract from a novel by old China hand Chris Taylor.

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Bloomsday in China

About Bloomsday and the Chinese translation of Ulysses.

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20 fragments of a ravenous youth: a review

Ian Wallace reviews Guo Xiaolu’s ’20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth’

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A tragic peasant rebellion, abridged for today’s readers

One-third of the text is cut out of an updated edition of ‘Li Zicheng’ (李自成) by Yao Xueyin (姚雪垠), because today’s readers don’t need the didacticism, errors, and ideology of the original.

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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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The most famous junk collector in Xi’an

Gaoxing (高兴) by Jia Pingwa (贾平凹) is actually based on the life experiences of his friend Liu Shuzhen (刘书祯), aka (刘高兴).

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