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Woman of Shanghai and the marketing of Chinese literature in translation

Woman From Shanghai, by Yang Xianhui, translated by Wen Huang Yang Xianhui's Chronicle of Jiabiangou (夹边沟纪事), a book of stories of a rightist camp in Gansu Province during the 1950s, was recently translated by Wen Huang and published under... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Fri, Sep 18 2009

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