On Friday I made another trip down to the Shanghai International Literary Festival to see mystery writer Qiu Xiaolong in conversation with Beijing-based mystery writer Catherine Sampson.
It was a great event for me because I have been reading Qiu’s work for about a year now. I find his books to be really [...]
In my last post, I mentioned I was reading Duncan Hewitt’s Getting Rich First. Today I found out that Thomas Crampton posted a video of an interview he did with Hewitt recently. Hewitt spoke about the Internet, angry teenagers and censorship. The video is worth watching for those who have read the book as well [...]
Last weekend, while I was at the Shanghai International Literary Festival I picked up Duncan Hewitt’s Getting Rich First: Life in a Changing China. I’ve been ill over the last week so I’ve had lots of time to go through it.
Hewitt’s first two chapters cover the demolition of old and ancient buildings in Beijing and [...]
