« I love dollars », short stories on modern China.

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Originally published on Rue89, 28/02/2010.


 Provocative and talented … a collection of short stories, “I Love Dollars” by Zhu Wen, a Chinese writer rather unknown but who had the honor of being published by Columbia University, has been translated into French. Other translations are planned, although now, the author devotes himself  mainly to directing films.

Economic liberalization but for morality, a waste land :
“I Love Dollars” includes five short novels and a short story. … Lire la suite

“Socialism is great”…a Chinese song and a life story.

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Originally published on Rue89 18/02/2010.

“Socialism is geat” … a Chinese song! A song sung in companies on July 1st, the anniversary of the foundation of the Chinese Communist Party, is also the title of the autobiography of  Zhang Lijia, a worker in a missile factory in 1980-1990, later on a journalist.

With a sister, nowdays a senior civil servant,and a brother at the time rather difficult, Lijia is the daughter of a worker, a

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Gao Xiingjian,Nobel Prize, the pen and the brush.

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Originally published on Rue89 08/02/2010.

 

Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, recently celebrated his 70th birthday. On this occasion, the University of London (SOAS) organised last January lectures and presentations of his books, films and theater.

The author of “Soul Mountain” (Ed. de l’Aube, 1995) and “One’s man Bible” (Ed de l’Aube, 2000) agreed to answer our questions focused on his films and his paintings.

In London, British actors gave a reading of … Lire la suite