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1930: A Ying on Writer Bing Xin 冰心/Xie Wanying

Posted on 06/19/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Her exact contemporary A Ying 阿英/Qian Xingcun 钱杏村 (1900 – 1977) wrote an appreciation of poet and writer Bing Xin 冰心/Xie Wang Ying (1900 – 1999). A Ying’s 1930 article on Bing Xin from Volume II of A Ying’s Collected … Continue reading →

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2008 Song Yongyi: The Other “Anti-Rightist Campaign” — The Ugliness and Shame of Chinese Intellectual Elites

Posted on 06/30/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

An Alternative “Anti-Rightist Campaign”: The Ugliness and Shame of Chinese Intellectual Elites 宋永毅：另类“反右”:中国知识精英的丑陋和耻辱 by Sun Yongyi Since this spring, the literary world has been abuzz with the possibility that Huang Miaozi and Feng Yidai betrayed their friends after the Anti-Rightist … Continue reading →

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2011: Excerpt from Geling Yan’s “The Criminal Lu Yanshi”

Posted on 04/20/2024 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Where does history end and literature begin? That is the question I often have about contemporary Chinese literature. Today this question came up again as I read the brief excerpt (which I translated below, further down below that I expected … Continue reading →

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