Kafka in China
By Ted O’Connell It’s one thing to travel to the Russian countryside and recall some brilliant Tolstoy scene, or to duck into a flower shop…
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A Murakami-esque Day: Banalities & Absurdities in Beijing
by Sarah Menkedick “Memory is like fiction; or else it’s fiction that’s like memory.” – Haruki Murakami, “The Last Lawn of the Afternoon,” The Elephant…
Pearl S. Buck: A Foreigner in China
by Katharine Mitchell The Chinese port city of Zhenjiang is situated on the Yangtze River, just west of Shanghai. It is small by Chinese standards:…