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Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing

By Yan Lianke | April 23, 2024

16 new books to check out this week.

16 new books to check out this week.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 14, 2023

20 paperbacks to kick off your summer reading.

20 paperbacks to kick off your summer reading.

By Katie Yee | June 1, 2022

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

Yan Lianke on the Concept of “Mythorealism”

By Yan Lianke and Carlos Rojas | May 23, 2022

7 stories for sleepless nights.

7 stories for sleepless nights.

By Katie Yee | February 24, 2022

What Is China Reading Right Now?

What Is China Reading Right Now?

Megan Walsh on the “Little Emperors” of Contemporary Chinese Literature

By Megan Walsh | February 17, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Megan Walsh on Yan Lianke and Fiction Writing in China

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | February 11, 2022

Yan Lianke on Intoxicated Revolutionaries and the Importance of
“Literary Distance”

By An Yu | June 21, 2021

Hard Like Water

By Lit Hub Excerpts | June 16, 2021

20 new books for your midsummer reading.

20 new books for your midsummer reading.

By Katie Yee | June 15, 2021

38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

The Lit Hub Staff Has Spoken

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2021

10 books that make the Earth come alive.

10 books that make the Earth come alive.

By Katie Yee | April 22, 2021

8 fictional housewives who have snapped (in a fun way).

8 fictional housewives who have snapped (in a fun way).

By Katie Yee | November 25, 2020

Read on, if you dare: 20 books that are laced with sinister magic.

Read on, if you dare: 20 books that are laced with sinister magic.

By Katie Yee | October 5, 2020

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

Yan Lianke: What Happens After Coronavirus?

On Community Memory and Repeating Our Own Mistakes

By Yan Lianke | March 11, 2020

The 10 Best Translated Novels<br> of the Decade

The 10 Best Translated Novels
of the Decade

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By Emily Temple | November 12, 2019