‘The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature’ Opens Doors Hitherto Closed to Us
Yunte Huang grapples with some monumental subject matter, and the results are spellbinding.
Lu Xun
‘Boy in the Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China’ Is both Trivial and Expansive
There is nothing hidden about the world of these stories, and Yu Hua’s writing is defined by its plainspoken voice and depiction of quotidian lives.
Chinese Cinema Through a Communist Lens
Chinese filmmakers Hu Sang and Xiaoning Feng go to great pains to conflate China and Tibet as simpatico cultures unified against the West in these samples of Chinese Cinema filmed through a Communist lens.