Interviews with Lin Bai, Yan Lianke, Li Rui and Mo Yan
Poems by Duo Duo and Yin Lichuan
Fiction by Lin Bai
Articles on ‘Symbolic Revolutions’, ‘Pretty Women’s Writing’, and art, amnesia, nostalgia and fashion in Shanghai
Reviews of Amartya Sen's Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, Binoo K John's Entry from the Backside Only, Anupama Chandrasekhar's Free Outgoing, Xiaolu Guo's 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth, Tahmima Anam's The Golden Age, Donna Weir-Soley's First Rain and Benjamin Kwakye's The Sun By Night
Contents
Suman Gupta Editorial: Writing China
Gregory B Lee Between the Fall of the Gang of Four and the Rise of Best-Sellers: Modern China’s Long Decade
Shao Yanjun A Study of the Phenomenon of ‘Pretty Women’s Writing’: Weihui, Mianmian, Chunshu
John Balcom Bridging the Gap: Contemporary Chinese Literature from a Translator’s Perspective
Li Rui Well Sweep (translated by John Balcom)
Suman Gupta Interviews with Li Rui, Mo Yan, Yan Lianke and Lin Bai (translated by Xiao Cheng)
Lin Bai Excerpt from The Fatal Flight (translated by Xiao Cheng)
Duo Duo Poems (translated by Gregory B Lee)
Yin Lichuan Poems (translated by Xiao Cheng)
Samuel Y Liang Amnesiac Monument, Nostalgic Fashion: Shanghai’s New Heaven and Earth
Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien Symbolic Revolutions: Xu Bing and his Language Art
Louis James Obituary: E A (Archie) Markham (1939 - 2008)
Reviews
Bruce King Amartya Sen Identity & Violence: The Illusion of Destiny Binoo K John Entry from the Backside Only: Hazaar Fundas of Indian-English Anupama Chandrasekhar Free Outgoing
Deborah Madsen Kwai-yun Li The Palm Leaf Fan and Other Stories Xiaolu Guo 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth
Mithu Banerji Tahmima Anam The Golden Age
Sudeep Ghosh Donna Weir-Soley First Rain
Tobias Robert Klein Benjamin Kwakye The Sun by Night
Lizzy Attree Siphiwo Mahala When a Man Cries Niq Mhlongo After Tears
Dimple Godiwala John Agard We Brits Colin Chambers Here We Stand: Politics Performers and Performance: Charlie Chaplin, Paul Robeson and Isadora Duncan
Tabish Khair Joan Barbara Simon The Red Room Jim Kavanagh and Richard Dyer A Western Journey
Ali Alizadeh E A Markham Lambchops with Sally Goodman Kamau Brathwaite Words Need Love Too
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