oil on canvas, 2003
Table of Contents
NEWMAN LAUREATE: Yan Lianke
- 4 A Long Journey: Four Newman Prize Nomination Statements for Yan Lianke
- 5 2020 Nomination Statement, by Eric Abrahamsen
- 6 2016 Nomination Statement, by Liu Jianmei
- 7 2014 Nomination Statement, by Carlos Rojas
- 9 2008 Nomination Statement, by Kirk A. Denton
- 12 A Village Greater than the World: Acceptance Speech for the 2021 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, by Yan Lianke, translated by Eric Abrahamsen
- 16 The Age Absent of Classics and the Writer’s Anxiety: An Interview with Yan Lianke, by Haiyan Xie, translated by Haiyan Xie
- 25 Wandering the Garden, Waking from a Dream, by Carlos Rojas
POETRY
- 34 Do Not Write Poetry with Silence, by Mai Mang
- 39 Bell and Drum Towers: Five Poems, by Mai Mang
- 46 Just Come Along: Six Poems, by Yam Gong, translated by James Shea and Dorothy Tse
FEATURED AUTHOR: Zhu Wenying
- 54 Secrets, Confrontation, and Alienation: An Interview with Writer Zhu Wenying, by Zhang Hong, translated by Yvette Zhu
- 59 Ten Years in Eleven Chapters, by Zhu Wenying, translated by Yvette Zhu
- 66 Soirée in the Spring, by Zhu Wenying, translated by Yvette Zhu
- 81 The Small Endless Sorrow of the South: Jottings after Reading Aunt Lili’s Small South, by Zhang Qinghua, translated by Yvette Zhu
Chinese Literature in Review
- 88 Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Romantic, by Birgit Linder
- 90 After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History, by Amir Khan
This Issue’s Art
On the Cover: Yue Minjun’s 岳敏君 Dark Sky (Heiyun 黑云),
oil on canvas, 2003.
We warmly thank the Yue Minjun studio
for allowing CLT to feature his artwork on the cover.
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