In volumes, quality and quantity China’s book industry might have exploded, but Chinese are no longer reading books, concludes The Atlantic, quoting the author Zhang Lijia on how a changing China changed book-reading habits.Read More →
President Xi Jinping’s struggle against corrupt officials gets a juicy turn as dumped mistresses use the internet to get even with their former lovers, explains author Zhang Lijia on het website. Zhang Lijia is currently working on a book on prostitution in China.Read More →
Earlier this month China’s government took the extraordinary step of forcing children to visits their parents regularly by law. Author Zhang Lijia looks in The Guardian back on how filial relations in China have been changing dramatically over the past two decades. Action is needed, she writes.Read More →
Why are you mostly writing in English, is a question author Zhang Lijia, a native from Nanjing, often has to answer. In English: “I can be bold and adventurous”, she writes for the English Editing Blog.Read More →
Many China-related novels in English are not really a great contribution to literature, but fellow author Zhang Lijia had to finish Karen Ma’s debut novel Excess Baggage
in one day, she explains on her weblog.Read More →
Despite the nasty twist the blind activist Chen Guangcheng’s stay at NYU got, his flight from China to the US was still a turning point, writes author and his long-term friend Zhang Lijia from Beijing in medium.com.Read More →
China’s top officials have asked their fellow citizens to behave when they travel and refrain from spitting and loud talking. Author Zhang Lijia puts spitting in a historical perspective, and believes bad habit decreased, and can disappear, she told BBC News.Read More →
The Vagina Monologues made it after a long time onto the stage at the China Media University, it would not be a piece for a mainstream Chinese theater. Author Zhang Lijia visited the first performance, and had a great time, she writes on her weblog.Read More →
When Chinese dissidents moved in the past to the US, whatever influence they had in their home country would fade away. But the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng is different, discovered author and friend Zhang Lijia in visits to his home town and in calls to the US, she writes in the New York Times. Read More →
Feminism never took root in China, but things are changing, notes author Zhang Lijia, in het weblog. Although activists have to be careful as public protests are still strictly controlled.Read More →
Chen Guangcheng, the blind activist who left last year for the US, is still making his mark in his old village Linyi, Shandong province, author Zhang Lijia discovered when visiting his family during a recent trip, she reports on her weblog.Read More →
The troublesome period of China’s Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) has been eradicated from the country’s official history, and many youngsters who not know what happened in that decade. Until recently an 80-year old man from Zhejiang had to face court for a murder in 1967. Time to deal with the ghosts of the Cultural Revolution, writes author Zhang Lijia in the South China Morning Post.Read More →