Articles by Lian Yang

• Dark Side of the Chinese Moon
  • Lian Yang

  in NLR 32, March-April 2005, pp. 132-140
  Subjects: China
  

  Yang Lian on Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, Zhongguo nongmin diaocha. A catalogue of the iniquities visited on rural China as the CCP safeguards the ‘investment environment’ of the coastal cities, at the cost of the countryside. Impoverishment and extortion of 40 per cent of the world’s peasants, in a survey suppressed by the PRC authorities.

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• Return to Beijing
  • Lian Yang

  in NLR 4, July-August 2000, pp. 37-48
  Subjects: China
  

  A Chinese poet rediscovers his native city, learning how much a favourable book review costs. Vignettes of China’s new ‘literary merchants’ drawing water from Mao’s well, with a faux slice of the Great Wall in the garden; and of its older industrial workers, destined for the scrapheap.

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