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Contemporary China On the Page

    1. Stream
      Digital
    2. Event Type Seminar

18 Apr 2012, 14:00 - 15:00

Whitehall Room

Language:
English

Chinese society has been undergoing monumental changes and is constantly evolving under the influence of China’s changing status in the world. Chi Zijian, Feng Tang and fellow author Xinran discuss how contemporary literature is reflecting these transformations and the effect they have on the life of Chinese people today.

Contributors

  • Chi Zijian

    Author

    Speaker

    Freelance

    Chi Zijian was born in 1965 on the night of the Lantern Festival in Mohe, near the Russian border. She began writing in 1983, when still a junior in...

  • Feng Tang

    Author

    Speaker

    Freelance

    The consummate chronicler of youth in Beijing, Feng Tang is the author of a series of novels deeply evocative of growing up in the Chinese capital...

  • Xin ran

    Author

    Speaker

    Freelance

  • Rachel Holmes

    Journalist

    Chairperson

    The Guardian

    Rachel Holmes is the author of The Hottentot Venus: the Life and Death of Saartjie Baartman and The Secret Life of Dr James Barry: Victorian...

Audience

  1. Audience
    Editors
    Literary Agents
    Publishers
    Students
    Translators

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