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Fiction: District Champ
Writer Ban Yu explores a clash of values in a northeastern factory town
Fiction: Sixty-Degree Grassland Liquor
A clash of values on the fast-disappearing Mongolian grassland
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Desert Echo
The late writer Sanmao’s memoir ‘Stories of the Sahara’ is a humanistic whirlwind through a harsh and poignant landscape
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Genius Loci
Lin Yutang’s biography of Su Dongpo presents a supernaturally complex portrait of the poet
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Fiction: Our Family Secret
Writer Yang Fei captures the suffocating yet familiar patterns of domestic life in this enigmatic tale
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Fiction: Getting Lucky
Part 2 of Kang Fu’s whimsical modern take on “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio”
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Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen
Feng Tang’s once-scandalous debut has aged as badly as its adolescent narrator