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Running Text
7.10.07
The Washington Post ran a
story Monday about Chinese satirist Yan Lianke
who is back at work scripting another novel that will surely draw the
ire of China's censors. Yan ran head on into the wall of
censorship in 2005 with a novella titled "Serve the People" was
published in a Chinese literary magazine. In the story, the wife
of a military officer has a steamy affair with an army recruit and finds
that vandalizing Mao propaganda excites her sexually. Back in
1994, at a time where Mao-style artistic censorship was more rigid than
it is today, Yan's novel "Xia Riluo" was banned for depicting two
military officers who become corrupt. Interestingly, Yan was
employed by the People's Liberation Army at the time to write
propaganda, not social satire. Needless to say, he was eventually
removed from this post. Yan's new novel focuses on a meek
professor during the Cultural Revolution. As a literary career
punctuated by censorship has taught the 49-year-old author, for this
novel, he is writing two versions— the original and his own
censored version for the Chinese.7.1.07
'Miss Chopsticks' Explores the Migrant Experience in China
British
journalist Xinran Xue
releases her first novel this month titled Miss Chopsticks,
the fictional tale of three rural Chinese sisters who migrate to the city of Nanjing in search of a new life. The novel
explores the role of what Xinran calls the "chopstick girl," the
unmarried rural Chinese female who, in the past, had no mobility or
opportunity in Communist China. In today's China, the "chopstick
girl" commonly migrates to the cities to find a service-oriented job
that allows her to send money back to her family. Unlike Xinran's
bestselling non-fiction work The Good Women of China (2002),
about the women who emerged from the Cultural Revolution era, in Miss
Chopsticks she delves into the themes of modern-day China.
Miss Chopsticks is scheduled for release in the UK on July 5 and on
August 28 in the US.6.15.07
Warner
to Adapt '1421,' Book Claiming
that China Discovered America
Warner China Film plans on releasing the film adaptation of 1421, the
controversial history of how the Chinese discovered America 71 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. British Royal Navy sub commander Gavin Menzies,
in 1421, lays out his theory that Ming emperor Zhu Di sent exploration fleets
around the world that discovered the Americas, Australia and New Zealand.
No expected release date has been announced by Warner.
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