Africa | Americas | Asia | Europe | Middle East Chinese praise a Nobel ‘first’ — ignoring past winner October 11, 2012 | 10:37 am BEIJING — Chinese state television hailed Mo Yan as "the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature" following the announcement Thursday of the 2012 award. The report… Continue reading LA Times’ piece on Mo Yan’s winning nobel prize, with a quote from me

One evening this summer, my Ayi (domestic helper) burst into the house with great excitement. “A man got himself drowned in the canal! The policemen have just fished his body out.” Shit! I said to myself, it must be that security guard Mr. Lu I had met the night before. He did it after all.… Continue reading The Sucidal Migrant Worker and Me – just published in Italian magazine East

The Moon Festival, also called Mid-Autumn Festival, is the second most important festival in China, after the lunar New Year. It falls on the 15th day of the eighteen lunar month, right in the middle of the autumn, and just before the harvest. The ancient Chinese adored the moon, regarding it as auspicious. The celebration… Continue reading The Moon Festival