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No. 18, Winter 2010: China
Non-fiction
ALR

 

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Modern Chinese Poetry: Insistent Voices
Non-fiction
Zheng Danyi

 

IT WAS A TIME of deep disaffection and despair. Those who had experienced the agony of the Cultural Revolution were filled with uncertainty about the future of China.

The Name of China
Non-fiction
Jan Morris

 

CHINA! The name of the world’s Number One State strikes me as properly onomatopoeic, especially perhaps in English. China! It rings grand, and big, and sonorous, like a great copper gong, but to my mind there is something mysteriously discordant to it, as though the alloy is defective. Of course this interpretation is ridiculously subjective ...