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
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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