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Rural China

    1. Stream
      Digital
    2. Event Type Seminar

18 Apr 2012, 15:30 - 16:30

Whitehall Room

Language:
English

Chinese & English simultaneous translation.

Amidst rapid urbanization, the rural setting in contemporary fiction has acquired new meaning in China. Authors Mo Yan and Li Er debate with literature expert Lu Jiande the role of life outside the city in contemporary fiction, forming the background to explorations of tradition and change.

Contributors

  • Mo Yan

    Writer

    Speaker

    Freelance

    Mo Yan is one of the great novelistic masters of modern Chinese literature with a long list of ambitious books to his name. His writing is powerful,...

  • Li Er

    Author

    Speaker

    Author

    Novelist and short story writer Li Er was born in 1966 in Henan Province. He graduated from the Shanghai East China Normal University in 1987. His...

  • Lu Jiande

    Literature expert

    Speaker

    Freelance

  • Julia Lovell

    Lecturer

    Speaker

    Birkbeck College, University of London

    Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Politics of Cultural...

Audience

  1. Audience
    Librarians / Information Professionals
    Booksellers
    Editors
    Publishers
    Students
    Authors
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