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How do you react when an author you’ve literally never heard of before wins the most prestigious award in the world — with chagrin or curiosity?

Denied an education in the Cultural Revolution, Can Xue has since published several award-winning novels.

Denied an education in the Cultural Revolution, Can Xue has since published several award-winning novels.

Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie are also among those highly tipped for the prize, announced on Thursday

Shaped by the political and literary climate of the time, the award does not assure a spot in the literary canon and often overlooks exceptional authors

As contemporary classics return to the Top 30, China's bestsellers in August have included a new challenge from relationship-driven fiction.

On October 5, a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine went to 84-year-old Chinese pharmacologist Tu Youyou for her discovery, decades ago, of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin. Tu and her team made the discovery during the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long period of chaos and militant Communist ideology in the 1960s and 1970s. After scouring traditional herbal

Many writers are looking for ways to capture the everyday realities that the government keeps hidden — sometimes at their own peril.

Soonest Nathaniel, a Poet, Journalist, and spoken word artiste, has been selected to participate in the esteemed International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, United States. Nathaniel is joining an exclusive group of authors that include several winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, including Turkey's Orhan Pamuk and China's Mo…

Soonest Nathaniel, a poet, journalist, and spoken word artist, has been selected to participate in the esteemed International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, United States. Nathaniel is joining an exclusive group of authors that include several winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, including Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk and China’s Mo […]