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Lijia Zhang's Blog, page 31
June 7, 2019
Literary festival at the British Library
The Zee Jaipur Literature Festival, famed as the ‘greatest literary show on earth’, is coming to London. I am taking part in this year’s festival held at the British Library in mid June. I’ll have a session on Saturday the 15th, the details as below, followed by another session about China and India. I’d be thrilled to see you there.
12:30 – 13.30 Mughal Courtyard
Words Are All We Have
Anjali Joseph, Lijia Zhang and Romesh Gunesekera in conversation with Catharine Morris
Three writers speak about ways of seeing and recording, and how they navigate words across countries and cultures. Romesh Gunesekera is the acclaimed Sri Lankan-born British author and finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Award-winning author Anjali Joseph has written three novels including her recent The Living. China-born writer and journalist Lijia Zhang has written memorable books that include China Remembers, Socialism Is Great! and Lotus. In conversation with editor and writer Catharine Morris.
https://www.bl.uk/events/zee-jaipur-literature-festival-2019
May 4, 2019
My oped in today’s scmp on the legacy of May 4 movement and democracy
See below the link to my piece on the legacy of May 4 movement and democracy. A sensitive topic but deserves discussion. thanks. https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3008612/xi-jinping-would-rather-chinese-forgot-true-legacy-may
March 25, 2019
February 24, 2019
Oxford China forum
At Oxford this weekend, attending the annual Oxford China Forum. My literature panel yesterday afternoon went very well indeed. I shared a stage with well-known writer Sheng Keyi, the author of the Northern Girls, among other things, and veteran Swedish translator Anna. G. Chen, who has translated works of Mo Yan, Yu Hua and so on, into Swedish. The session was skilfully moderated by Xiaoning Liu from SOAS. And it was so well organized. It was a full house at Oxford Union. How satisfying to see the young people keenly filing away so many questions! (Well, there was always one of two of them who were interested in making comments instead of asking questions.)
February 8, 2019
Leeds The featured writer at Leeds
I have the honor to be the featured writer at Leeds Center for Chinese Writing. This afternoon, I shared a stage with the wonderful award winning writer Yan Ge on a panel entitled “Women in China: Fiction and Reality”. In the first half of the seminar, I talked about Lotus, a novel about a migrant-turned sex worker and she talked about her novel The Chilli Bean Paste Clan about a man frequents prostitutes. I think we complemented each other beautifully. In the second half, we answered many questions from a packed audience about fiction, gender issues in China, prostitution and writing in English. I am so happy with the way it went.
Here’s Yan Ge’s wikie entry. Check her out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Ge
January 31, 2019
January 22, 2019
The War For China Wallet
Today in Shanghai I had the great pleasure to share a lunch with Shaun Rein, the founder of a successful market research company (CMR) and a great speaker. We have spoken at quite a few events together in the past. He kindly gave me his latest book ‘The War For China’s Wallet’, which was endorsed by renowned Harvard professor Elizabeth Perry.
Check it out!
https://www.amazon.com/War-Chinas-Wallet-Profiting-World/dp/1501515942
January 10, 2019
December 28, 2018
December 19, 2018
a profile written by a student
Recently I was interviewed by a Chinese student who is working on her MA at Goldsmiths, University of London. It is the best profile ever written about me. But I think the young student did a good job.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u7L0RFlazRVIxdDt8YZzXJPBo_XUvyY3Wi-uHFmNMWA
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