RAS BOOK CLUB
Sunday 24th March 2013 at 7:00 pm
Venue: glo London (3/F, VIP Room or Lounge)
1 Wulumuqi, near Dongping Lu (across from American Consulate)
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The RAS Book Club will meet to discuss:
CHANGE: What Was Communism?
by Mo Yan (Pulitzer Prize in Literature 2012)
Published by: Seagull Books
Published: 2012
117 pages
Copies of the book will be available at RAS events prior to this meeting. You may also obtain a copy of the book by contacting the RAS Book Club (see below).
Entrance: RMB 70 (RAS Members) and RMB 100 (non-members) including a drink (tea, coffee, soft drink, or glass of wine). Those unable to make the donation but wishing to attend may contact us for exemption, prior to this RAS Book Club event. Member applications and membership renewals will be available at this event.
N.B. RESERVATIONS ESSENTIAL AS SPACE IS LIMITED AT THIS EVENT.
THE BOOK (from book cover)
In Change China’s foremost novelist Mo Yan personalizes the social and political changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice versa). Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are pegged to political events, Change is a representative of ‘people’s history’, a bottom-up rather than top-down view of a country in flux. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, the author breathes life into history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.
THE AUTHOR (from book cover)
Mo Yan has been described as ‘one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers’. His novels include Red Sorghum (1987), The Republic of Wine (1992), Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996) and POW! (forthcoming from Seagull Books, 2012). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012.
THE TRANSLATOR (from book cover)
Howard Goldblatt is research professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. He has published English translations of more than 30 novels and story collections by writers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. He is also the founding editor of Modern Chinese Literature.