Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21514399.2021.1990678
G. Lin, Stephen Nashef
In this interview, Lin Gang and Xue Yiwei discuss the latter’s thirty years of literature more or less chronologically, beginning with his first published novella in 1988 and concluding with the publication in 2020 of “King Lear” and Nineteen-Seventy-Nine. Xue reflects on the relationship between his life and his work, his views on literature, and the difficulties he has faced in his career as a writer.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21514399.2021.1990681
Yiwei Xue, Yingzi Hu
Published in 2012, Chinese writer Xue Yiwei’s Traveling with Marco Polo is a creative collection that dialogues with Invisible Cities by the postmodern Italian writer Italo Calvino. While Calvino imagines a young Marco Polo describing the fantastic sights of fifty-five cities to an aging Kublai Khan, Xue Yiwei joins the conversation and gives meticulous explication of each one of Calvino’s cities. The following excerpts were translated from the Chinese version of Traveling with Marco Polo by Hu Ying.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/21514399.2021.2049176
Yuqiu Meng, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
Meng Yu comes from Pingliang City in Gansu Province and is a member of the Picun Literature Group in Beijing. She likes music and literature and works as a baby nurse in Beijing’s Haidian District.
b孟Yu来自甘肃省平凉市，现为北京碧村文学小组成员。她喜欢音乐和文学，在北京海淀区做一名婴儿护士。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21514399.2021.1917251
Wenying Zhu, Yvette Zhu
Zhu Wenying was born in Shanghai in the 1970s. In this self-interview from early in her career, she writes eleven short essays to answer questions ranging from the meaning of literature to her inspirations and influences, love and music, the passage of time and its effect on her development as a writer and her writing. She also ruminates on what is writing and how to be a writer. This interview is a glimpse of a writer as a person. Originally published in Writer Magazine in 2008.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21514399.2021.1916367
Haiyan Xie
This interview was conducted on a summer day at the International Culture Center of Capital Normal University in Beijing: August 12, 2019. Suffering from a relapse of his backache, Yan Lianke had to talk and answer questions by reclining on the couch for nearly three hours. Despite of it, he was patient and impressively open to questions that may not have quick or easy answers. The interview covers a wide range of topics, primarily focusing on three aspects: 1) the multiple dimensions of Yan’s anxiety stemming from living in today’s social reality, literary creation itself, and the incapability of grasping the future; 2) Yan’s understanding of classics against the backdrop of contemporary Chinese literary reality; 3) the paradox of Yan’s emotional attachment to the “native soil” (xiangtu) both in life and in literature, and his perception of a writer’s social responsibility as not running away from the life with which one is most familiar.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/21514399.2021.1916370
Mai Mang
Poet Mai Mang presents a journey across time and across the Pacific and the North American continent, from the Bell and Drum Towers to Angel Island and to Hart Island. Mai Mang also discusses a poetics of silence. He confesses that he has become accustomed to listening to the voices buried in silence and wants to preserve these voices, or silence, in his own poems. Ultimately, the kind of poetry he is interested in and dedicated to is like this: it originated from silence, it carries history, it aims at infinity.
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