What China is reading and why it matters: A conversation with author Megan Walsh
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Is There Any Literature Coming Out of China Right Now?
Young people in china are struggling to justify ever writing about their own lifen. They need to be thinking about the fate of those worse off than them, which i think is a really interesting influence on chinese fiction. I can't help but notice that there is kind of an expectation that we in the west tend to saddle chinese riders wit as well. How wud you tackle that? Do you feel like with this book,. you're able to to transcend the western gaze, as it were, and manage to talk about what china' writers are writing on there an terms? Yes. Am, i mean that's somethingwhich i've had to grapple with quite a
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