Dr Andrea Lingenfelter

@OndiLing
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Modern sinophone literature, politics; 海派 ; translator of Lilian Lee 李碧華, Hon Lai Chu 韓麗珠,Mian Mian 棉棉,Zhai Yongming 翟永明, Wang Yin 王寅;4th gen. Californian
New Wang Anyi just dropped! The short story collection _I Love Bill_ tr. Todd Foley. Like Zhang Xudong says in the preface, this is China's premier realist writer, one of the most important voices of Shanghai, and a fascinating way to get into the richness of lived experience in post-Mao China. In ebook and paperback: https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501771071/i-love-bill-and-other-stories/#bookTabs=1 #chineseliterature
I Love Bill and Other Stories by Anyi Wang | eBook | Cornell University Press

I Love Bill and Other Stories showcases the work of Wang Anyi, one of China's most prolific and highly regarded writers, in two novellas and three short stories. A young artist's life spirals out of...

Cornell University Press
And lastly, an excerpt from her forthcoming translated book "Mourning a Breast": https://chajournal.blog/2020/10/24/mourning/. "Communication between people is difficult, but talking to the body is even more challenging. There are so many parts, each with its own grievances, the body’s language split into distinct regional dialects. Bones speak the language of bones. Muscles speak the language of muscles. Nerves speak the language of nerves." #ChineseLiterature
[ARCHIVE] “The Body’s Language (from 𝑀𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡)” by Xi Xi, translated by Jennifer Feeley

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A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts

Here is the official response from the BBC to the detainment of Ed Lawrence at a protest in #Shanghai over the weekend. #China #chinaprotest #BBC #chinaprotests

BREAKING: Herschel Walker names Texas home as his primary residence on his tax forms to get a tax break, per new CNN story.

Legally, Walker lives in Dallas — not Georgia.