Lijia Zhang's Blog, page 27
November 5, 2020
my oped on animal cruelty in China
My latest piece about animal cruelty in China, calling for animal protection law. A word of warning, you may find some parts – the horrific killing of a pregnant cat and my blowing up toads for fun as a child – disturbing. My younger daughter Kirsty who edited the piece before publication urged me not to put it there as she feared it might damage my reputation, but I wanted to tell the truth.
October 19, 2020
October 8, 2020
September 22, 2020
domestic violence
A Chinese woman is badly abused by her husband, yet, a court denied her divorce. Here’s my opinion piece in SCMP about domestic violence and divorce in China.
September 20, 2020
my oped on racism and BLM
https://thewire.in/society/china-racism-black-lives-matter-guangzhou-africans
August 21, 2020
finally published in the UK
Finally got published in the UK! One of my short stories – yes I do write short stories – has been published by Wasafiri, a magazine of international contemporary writing. I hope it’ll be step closer to get a book published in the country I am living in.
https://www.wasafiri.org/product/wasafiri-issue-103-pre-order/
August 9, 2020
July 11, 2020
China Remembers as an ebook
Friends, I need your support!
China Remembers is an oral history book of China’s first 50 years that I co-authored with my ex Calum MacLeod. A Germany based publisher has just published it as an ebook. See the link below.
https://www.wandtigerverlag.de/en/latest-publication/
People say that to understand China, you need to understand its past. I’d like to think so. Please take a look and spread the good word.
China Remembers
The PRC’s first 50 years, told through extraordinary personal journeys
Making history not only comprehensible, but also a reading experience that gets under the skin: this is the art that the two authors Zhang Lijia and Calum MacLeod have mastered impressively. China Remembers recounts the first fifty years of the People’s Republic of China (1949-1999) in 33 interviews with contemporary witnesses from all walks of life: From the founding of the state by Mao Zedong and the mass movements of the 1950s and 1960s to Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening policy and China’s rise to become a great economic power in the 1990s. Each of the historical sections as well as each individual interview is expertly introduced, and so one does not have to be a an expert on China to follow the moving memories of the interviewees, who include soldiers, farmers, street vendors, priests, teachers, singers, interpreters, business people, architects, refuse collectors and many other professions.
China Remembers offers authentic voices of a group of remarkable raconteurs for those who are willing to listen as well as for those whose ears are attuned to subtle cultural messages from the ancient and ever vibrant civilization. (Du Weiming, Professor Emeritus of Asia Center, Harvard University)
(eBook) – ca. 290 pages – € 9,99 
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