Diverse cameos of Chinese life and culture include literary discussions of the career of the first Chinese Nobel Laureate and of the writing of Chiang Yee, a new translation of the ‘Song of Yuyang’, overviews of film and documentary photography from China, war memories, Internet censorship, the plight of migrant workers, fiction and poetry; with photographs from the exhibition: China: A Photographic Portrait.

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FICTION

Sugar Street, Ice House Street – Dung Kai-Cheung, translated by Bonnie McDougall, Old Country Folk
Zhong Lihe – translated and introduced by T.M. Maclellan, Buddha in the Sand – Keith Aitchison, City of One Person – Yang Lian

POETRY

Wen Yiduo, Sam Meekings, Erinn Batykefer

ARTICLES

Documentary Photography in China – Natascha Gentz, Memories of G Block – Fraser Newham, The City at the Empire’s Edge – Nick Holdstock, From ‘Big Character Posters’ to Blogs
Martin Hala, Migrant Workers – Will Brady, The First Chinese Nobel Laureate – Natascha Gentz, Yan Fu, Pioneer Translator – John Chinnery, China and the Centrality of Ecology – Iain Orr, Making Friends with the Mist – Jennie Renton

PHOTOGRAPHS

From the exhibition: China, A Photographic Portrait

REVIEWS

Hannah Adcock, Ross Alloway, Jenni Calder, Aileen Christianson, Bernard Crick, Natascha Gentz, Alasdair Gillon, Andy Gloege, Stephen Lackaye, Michael Lister, Matthew McGuire, Ian Stephen, Roland Stiven, Julian Ward