Book Review: A Spirited Journey Through Contemporary China
Reading the Chinese novelist Yu Hua’s nonfiction book “China in Ten Words” is like being in a scene from the movie “Fight Club.” The pace is so frenetic and edgy that you spend much of your time flinching and ducking to avoid being splattered with blood or human tissue.
And yet Yu Hua’s spirited and at times unbelievably harrowing journey through contemp…
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