Tash Aw
Event · Mon, 27 May 2013
Tash Aw’s third – and ‘most personal’ – novel, Five Star Billionaire, follows four Malaysian characters trying to make it in the new China, where the megacity of Shanghai is the new New York.Aw’s…
In Midnight in Peking, renowned China commentator Paul French solved a grisly, long-forgotten true crime story which shocked the one-time inhabitants of pre-communist Beijing’s infamous nightlife…
From her studies as the only foreign apprentice in a prestigious Chengdu cooking school to her storied career as an award-winning food writer, there are fewer better guides to a Sichuan kitchen…
As the Communist Party of China’s 18th National Congress oversees the biggest leadership transition in decades, join host Sally Warhaft and China watcher and correspondent, John Garnaut, as they…
As the Communist Party of China’s 18th National Congress oversees the biggest leadership transition in decades, Sally Warhaft catches up with China watcher and correspondent John Garnaut to examine t…
The revolutionary potential of rock and roll has long been a worn-out cliché in the West, where the Rolling Stones do commercials and rappers hang with royalty. But in contemporary China, rock (or…
The revolutionary potential of rock and roll has long been a worn-out cliché in the West, where the Rolling Stones do commercials and rappers hang with royalty. But in contemporary China, rock (or…
Masha Gessen is the author of a controversial new biography of Putin, The Man Without a Face. She has also written extensively on the lives and roles of women in contemporary Russia. Sheng Keyi’s…
Liao Yiwu
Event · Thu, 24 Nov 2011
In May 2011, poet and novelist Liao Yiwu was prevented from visiting the Sydney Writers’ Festival after Chinese authorities refused to grant him an exit permit. It was the sixteenth time he’d been…
Liao Yiwu
Video · Thu, 24 Nov 2011
Liao Yiwu is a Chinese poet, novelist, musician and screenwriter currently living in exile in Germany because of government suppression of his work in China. Imprisoned for four years following…
Only six per cent of Chinese people are happy, according to a poll published earlier this year in China. This may explain why China spends more on internal security than on its military, according…
Dissident Chinese writer Liao Yiwu has published an account of how he escaped China in the New York Times. We have previously reported on the writer’s travails on several occasions. Earlier this…
Dissident Chinese writer Liao Yiwu has gone into exile. Liao is the compiler of The Corpse Walker, an astonishing collection of interviews with 27 Chinese at the fringes of society in the People’s…
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released from detention without trial after almost three months in detention. The government’s official news agency Xinhua reported he was released “because of his g…
Image of Mao Tse-Tung via WikiCommons
The Chinese government’s chief literary institutions are finding it difficult to quash rumours that Mao’s Little Red Book was…
Liao Yiwu, photographed in Cologne last year, via Wikipedia
Meet Liao Yiwu, an author and musician from China’s Sichuan province, which borders Tibet in central China. In h…
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That contemporary China is in the ascendancy is a platitude. For observers unfamiliar with China, it’s hard to understand how…
Murong Xuecun is one of China’s most celebrated and controversial authors. His work, which surveys the nation’s contemporary mindset through fiction and investigative journalism, has earned him the c…
Murong Xuecun is one of China’s most celebrated and controversial authors. His work, which surveys the nation’s contemporary mindset through fiction and investigative journalism, has earned him the c…
