Category: Ethnic ChinaLit: What We’re Reading Now

What We’re Reading Now: “Eyes of the Ocean”

In August 1994, not long after I’d returned to Lanyu to learn to dive and to take care of my parents, who adhered to the old modes of thought, and my children, who thought in Chinese, I went on a junket to faraway Hsinchiang Province with the Indigenous scholar Sun Ta-chuan, the Indigenous writer Topas … Continue reading What We’re Reading Now: “Eyes of the Ocean” →

Ethnic ChinaLit: What We’re Reading now — “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night”

At Penguin's web site, Peter Hessler, author of River Town, has this to say about this novel by the Uyghur poet: Among our scattered glimpses of the Uyghur catastrophe in China — the digital surveillance, the mass arrests, the reeducation camps — it seems impossible to imagine the survival of any individual creative sensibility. But … Continue reading Ethnic ChinaLit: What We’re Reading now — “Waiting to Be Arrested at Night” →