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Real and imagined opportunites in Beijing

Xujun Eberlein at Inside-Out China reviews Jonathan Tel's The Beijing of Possibilities, a collection of stories about the city: In recent years, there has been no shortage of nonfiction books set in Beijing written by expats, but fiction in the same... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Fri, Sep 25 2009

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07 Jul 09 visit Though the Candles Flicker Red  »  China Beat Jonathan Tel's collection of stories, The Beijing of Possibilities, was released last month. China Beat ran an earlier selection, "Year of the Gorilla," in March 2009. Tel's previous publications include Arafat's Elephant and Freud's Alphabet. You can...
05 Mar 09 visit Year of the Gorilla  »  China Beat This is a selection from Jonathan Tel's forthcoming collection of short stories, The Beijing of Possibilities, to be published this summer by Other Press. Tel is the author of Freud's Alphabet and the story collection Arafat's Elephant. His stories have...
25 May 08 visit Introducing Xujun Eberlein  »  Peking Duck Xujun Eberlein is an e-friend of mine. She grew up in Chongqing and moved to the US in 1988 to study at MIT. She gave up hi-tech for writing and has won a bunch of literary awards. Her first book, Apologies Forthcoming, a collection of stories based on...
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