Contemporary literature helps West better understand China
LEEDS, United Kingdom - It's the first encounter between the worker-turned Chinese author Lu Nei and Britain's Yorkshire, land of White Rose. But the writer's novels about his fellow blue-collar workers in China struck a chord here.
Lu, who was invited to the Reading Chinese Book Review Network Residential Weekend hosted by the White Rose East Asia Center at University of Leeds, said his books tell the stories of his country in a retrospective manner.
"I think one of the reasons why they invited me is that they want to know more about the Chinese authors of the younger generation, to closely follow the heartbeat of China and better understand the country," he said. "The migrant workers and blue-collar workers in my books are constituents of today's China."
