君子不器
Book Review (2009)| ‘Brothers,’ by Yu Hua Imagine a novel written by William Dean Howells together with D. H. Lawrence, updated by Tom Wolfe and then filmed by Baz Luhrmann, and you’ll have some idea of what “Brothers” would be like, had it originated in the West. Translate that imaginary novel-film into Chinese, and you…
Interview with Yu Hua Interviewed August 30, 2003 – University of Iowa International Writing Program, Shambaugh House – Iowa City, Iowa. Standaert—Can you talk about what led you to leave dentistry to become a writer? Did this provoke any conflicts between you and your family, economically, personally?
“Given the proliferation of rumors, and the speed at which they circulate online, the government realized that measures like deleting posts and shutting down microblog accounts had lost their effectiveness. So it began a campaign to prosecute bloggers. On Sept. 9, the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate issued a ruling stipulating that defamatory…