Sabina Knight

Sabina Knight is Professor Emerita of Chinese and World Literatures at Smith College. She is the author of The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction (2006) and Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (2012).

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Yu Hua: Fictional Cities

The bestselling Chinese novelist foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction.

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Dec 16, 6:30-8pm Asia Society NYC

Shakespeare, Tyranny and China

What do King Lear, Mao Zedong and Donald Trump have in common? How tyrants exercise power was a question of pressing concern for William Shakespeare, and is no less so in our current age. Join us on December 16 at Asia Society in New York to hear literary scholar Nan Z. Da in conversation with Shakespeare expert Stephen Greenblatt, moderated by Orville Schell.

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Yu Hua: Fictional Cities

Shakespeare, Tyranny and China

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