The acclaimed novelist and screenwriter built an audience in China for her powerful historical narratives. Then, somewhere, she crossed a line. What is it like...
Since the 1990s, Liao Yiwu has been gathering oral histories of Chinese experience, from the everyday to the extraordinary. Then in 2011, harangued by the...
35 years after Tiananmen, the most-wanted student and worker demonstrators now live in America, Hong Kong and Taiwan. A journalist who covered the protests caught...
Join us in New York or D.C. to discuss this translated Chinese novel, a crime thriller about a nanny who kidnaps the child of a top official, that examines power and prestige in contemporary China, and the pressures that build along the fault lines of hidden pasts.
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