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Linda Grant talks to Alex Clark about her novel The Story of the Forest

Books and Authors

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Chen Ching-Yin and Inappropriate Relations

Wang Zhebou's comic tone somehow got round the censorship situation. I think he's the only one, or one of the very first ones there to write that dark history in such a hilarious way. And also his story, within story, because instead of write about cultural revolution, he used confession,. Although it's kind of ridiculous, absurd text, like a police document. So then your reading become kind of theatrical reading rather than a straight political reading.

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