Twisted Tongues Rising from the din of microblog chatter, movie titles and official reports is a vocabulary that defines our times Cultivating Moral Growth Mo Yan's novel "The Garlic Ballads" and John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" offer different perspectives on questions of ethics brought on by institutional failings
The Civil Servant's Notebook Wang Xiaofeng's novel centers on servile mid-career officials and the bureaucratic buffoonery that lauds such leadership Follow Follow A film that presents the no sex, no drugs and only rock and roll lifestyles behind today's Beijing rock scene Fine Line of Tradition Liu Guohui, former dean at the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, discusses ambiguities and invention in Chinese painting The Badlands The Badlands offers a glimpse into the wild assortment of characters that once populated a district in Beijing What Bart Simpson Might Say to Mo Yan Both the Nobel winner and the animated bad boy are known to do some copying on the proverbial blackboard. The writer could stand to learn something from Bart’s scrawling Adrift in the Ocean In view of China’s social transformations, Chinese literature has yet to focus on the point between the fantastical and the derelict Examine and Distinguish A collection of essays on the strident debate over broadening literary analysis to include Western theory Scattering Seeds New meanings to old experiences sprout up through books that are capable of envisioning a break with tradition
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