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Translation: Wei Zhou on “Empathy for Authority” Posted by Anne Henochowicz | Apr 5, 2021 Wei Zhou is a rare voice in the world of WeChat public accounts, keeping his critiques of contemporary Chinese society just vague enough to stave off censorship (most of the time), yet relevant enough to amass a steady following. This March 30 post, translated in full below, lands in the midst of a nationalist boycott of H&M and other international brands in protest of their pledge not to use cotton fr...

Not quite China Rhyming’s usual historical period but often harking back to the early part of the twenty first century, Te Pin Chen’s (former WSJ China correspondent) collection of short stories, Land of Big Numbers, bring to life many of the voiceless of recent Chinese history – migrant workers, back yard engineers, nail house residents, dissidents, emigres, stock market hopefuls, gig economy workers….Each one of the ten stories is fascinating…. A brother competes for gaming glory w...

Review: The comforts of oppression, in a journalists wildly inventive fiction Nathan Deuel © (Benjamin Carlson) Te-Ping Chen, right, author of the short story collection "Land of Big Numbers," in Chengdu, China in 2011. (Benjamin Carlson) Cao Cao, a villager in rural China, wants to join the Communist Party. Each year, he summits the hills at first light, harvesting the tastiest apricots to give the local party boss, who has rejected his application every year. So Cao Cao tri...

Mariner: 256 pages, $16 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Cao Cao, a villager in rural China, wants to join the Communist Party. Each year, he summits the hills at first light, harvesting the tastiest apricots to give the local party boss, who has rejected his application every year. So Cao Cao tries a more ambitious gambit, assembling trash and spare parts from his neighbors into a working plane. H...

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Review: Journalist’s first collection of fiction excels by Ann Levin, The Associated Press Posted Feb 1, 2021 9:46 am EDT Last Updated Feb 1, 2021 at 9:58 am EDT This cover image released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows "Land of Big Numbers" by Te-Ping Chen. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt via AP) “Land of Big Numbers,” by Te-Ping Chen (Mariner Books) A Chinese tech company recently made headlines for its use of “smart” cushions in office chairs to monitor its employees’ workplace per...

Ann Levin This cover image released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt shows "Land of Big Numbers" by Te-Ping Chen. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt via AP) February 01, 2021 - 6:46 AM “Land of Big Numbers,” by Te-Ping Chen (Mariner Books) A Chinese tech company recently made headlines for its use of “smart” cushions in office chairs to monitor its employees’ workplace performance. It’s the kind of creepy surveillance you’d expect in the dystop...

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Chen is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal who spent several years covering Hong Kong and Beijing for the newspaper. In her debut story collection, "Land of Big Numbers," she moves effortlessly between the two countries, illuminating the lives of ordinary, often damaged, people on both sides of the Pacific. Some of her characters are depicted as victims of the cruel conditions of their society, whether it’s the totalitarian rule of Communist China or th...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The writer Te-Ping Chen grew up in California in a Chinese American family. She says she did what kids from immigrant families often do. Her parents sent her to bilingual school. She attended classes in Chinese styles of painting and calligraphy. But her family did not take her across the Pacific. TE-PING CHEN: I always wanted to go to China. I was always really curious about the country. And I remember in high school when I asked my father if I could go, he said, no, you c...

Jessica Zack January 30, 2021Updated: February 1, 2021, 5:29 pm Author Te-Ping Chen was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing. Photo: Lucas Foglia Te-Ping Chen says that when she moved to Beijing in 2014 to work as a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, it was helpful as both a journalist and a fiction writer that she felt like such an outsider. Even though she speaks Mandarin and grew up in an Oakland family proud of her Chinese heritage, the country...