Turning the page
By Chitralekha Basu | China Daily | Updated: 2009-10-20 10:10
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Visitors walk past a surface covered with wooden blocks showing different Chinese characters at the recently concluded Frankfurt Book Fair. AFP |
Ever since I delved into the eight-volume 21st Century Chinese Literature Series, a platform on which the current literary voices of China take turns telling stories, it has been a total engagement. The stories - compulsive, sad and ruthlessly complicated - are symptomatic of the times we live in. This is probably not the sort of literature you would like to take along on your next beach holiday.
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