China Diary
| Sunday, November 9, 2008 6:26PM | | | | China Diary: Sept. 18-19, 2008 | Posted By: Patricia Laurence
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| | September 18: Interview with Chun Sue, BEIJING DOLL
I met another young, successful Beijing novelist whose first novel was banned in China. Written at the age of 19, her semi-autobiographical coming of age novel, Beijing Doll, translated into English by the distinguished translator, Howard Goldblatt, is described as a “novel of cruel youth” in China. In America, it has often been assessed as a bundle of clichés. In my interview, she rejected that assessment and argued that her generation is facing something different, something confusing in Chinese society that Mian Mian’s Candy also expresses. The sentiments may be familiar in America but in the Chinese context, the genre captures, as she states in her Author’s Note to the book, “the irreconcilable incompatibility with society,... | | | | | | | |
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