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A Date with China: Zhang Leping and his wordless literary classicsIn September, 1992, Zhang Leping, a world-class ca

Zhang Yimou’s third adaptation of a work by Geling Yan, who is uncredited in the film after being ‘cancelled’ for criticising Xi Jinping’s policies, is deeply personal for the director – but deviates from his original vision.

In the year 278 BC an aristocrat and poet named Qu Yuan took his own life by throwing himself into the waters of the Milo River. Qu Yuan had once been the powerful adviser to the ruler of the Chu kingdom, specializing in legal affairs and diplomacy, but the monarch was tricked into hating Qu Yuan and rejected his advice. Driven into exile in southern Chu (south of the Yangtze,

I have your words, that you put down on paperbut nothing at hand to return, so I write downpapaya. I cut one open: so many dark points, so many undefined things On Sunday, January 6, when Leung Ping-kwan, author of these lines, passed away, Hong Kong lost one of its best voices. A film and literary critic, a university professor, a writer, a photographer, most of all a poet of

Meet Yang Benfen, a granny writer "by the stove"-