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Features at 9:00pm - Xujun Eberlein, William Walsh and Gloria Mindock will read
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Jun.22.2012 - 9:02 am
(Published in Foreign Policy)
"If Second in Command illustrates the explosive success of the officialdom novel, it also exemplifies the genre's precarious status in China. Truth,...
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May.13.2012 - 11:32 am
-- A Dual Review of Tombstone and Mao's Great Famine
In July 2011, Frank Dikötter’s Mao’s Great Famine won the BBC’s Samuel Johnson Prize, one of Europe’s best known and most...
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May.18.2011 - 3:58 pm
On April 2nd, entering China at Chengdu’s airport, I was held for a few extra moments and ordered to wait to the side. I watched as my passport was handed to a different desk,...
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Aug.06.2010 - 7:28 pm
My essay about social sci-fi in China and Chen Guanzhong's recent novel, China 2013, is now up on the website of Foreign Policy magazine. It seems to be getting quite a few reads...
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Jun.20.2009
Published by http://www.atimes.com
Laudable in its own right, Eberlein's collection is also a reminder of all the great stories that could and should be written in China today. Unfortunately, exile continues to be...
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Xujun Eberlein is the author of the award-winning story collection Apologies Forthcoming. A native of Chongqing, China now living in the Boston area, she is also a widely read essayist and blogger on China. Her stories and essays have appeared in many...
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