A dark figure stands alone in the centre of a bleak, shadowy landscape in one painting, while an ethereal tree-like...
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Although China is now the world’s second-largest economy, few Chinese writers are read outside the country or inform the global...
HarperCollins recently announced its purchase of the Chinese novel Zu Jie by author Xiao Bai for $60,000, for publication in...
Has the onset of the Age of Social Media transformed the Chinese people’s reading habits? Can readers still savor a...
An extraordinary coalition of global literary figures including the Nobel literature laureates JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Wole Soyinka, Tomas Tranströmer...
As well as being a Marxist ideologue and global activist for half a century, Tariq Ali has been a prolific...
During the Tomb Sweeping holiday, more than 1,000 tourists visited the former residence of Nobel Literature laureate Mo Yan within...
Of all the themes of the book (LEE KUAN YEW: THE GRAND MASTER'S INSIGHTS ON CHINA, THE UNITED STATES, AND...
Mo Yan: no dissident. Photograph: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images Mo Yan, China's first Nobel laureate for literature, has been greeted with...
The sensation caused by Mo Yan winning the Nobel Prize in literature is one thing, what it means for Chinese...