Edinburgh Review scan issue 124

Edinburgh Review 124

China

Diverse cameos of Chinese life and culture include literary discussions of the career of the first Chinese Nobel Laureate and of the writing of Chiang Yee, a new translation of the 'Song of Yuyang', overviews of film and documentary photography from China, war memories, Internet censorship, the plight of migrant workers, fiction and poetry; with photographs from the exhibition: China: A Photographic Portrait.

FICTION

Sugar Street
Ice House Street
Dung Kai-Cheung
translated by Bonnie McDougall

Old Country Folk
Zhong Lihe
translated and introduced by T.M. Maclellan

Buddha in the Sand

Keith Aitchison

City of One Person
Yang Lian

POETRY

Wen Yiduo
Sam Meekings
Erinn Batykefer

ARTICLES

Documentary Photography in China
Natascha Gentz

Memories of G Block
Fraser Newham

The City at the Empire's Edge
Nick Holdstock

From 'Big Character Posters' to Blogs
Martin Hala

Migrant Workers
Will Brady

The First Chinese Nobel Laureate
Natascha Gentz

Yan Fu, Pioneer Translator
John Chinnery

China and the Centrality of Ecology
Iain Orr

Making Friends with the Mist
Jennie Renton

PHOTOGRAPHS

From the exhibition: China, A Photographic Portrait

REVIEWS

Hannah Adcock
Ross Alloway
Jenni Calder
Aileen Christianson
Bernard Crick
Natascha Gentz
Alasdair Gillon
Andy Gloege
Stephen Lackaye
Michael Lister
Matthew McGuire
Ian Stephen
Roland Stiven
Julian Ward


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