{"id":1394,"date":"2012-11-20T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T02:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2012-11-19T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T02:54:15","slug":"creative-women-in-contemporary-china-sheng-keyi-at-asia-society-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Creative Women in Contemporary China: Sheng Keyi at Asia Society New York"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A conversation with one of China’s leading new novelists<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A conversation between fiction writer Sheng Keyi <\/strong>and Susan Jakes<\/strong>, Senior Fellow, Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society and the Editor of ChinaFile.com.<\/p>\n

Born in Yiyang, Hunan in the 1970s, Sheng Keyi<\/strong> is considered one of China’s leading younger generation authors. Sheng’s first full-length novel, Northern Girls<\/em> \u2014 published in China in 2004 and forthcoming in an English translation in 2012 \u2014 drew on her own harrowing experience as a female job-seeking “migrant” to the southern economic boomtown of Shenzhen in the early 1990s. Sheng began to write full time in 2001 and has since won several prestigious national awards, including the Most Promising New Talent Award, the Guangdong New Talent Award, the New Works Award, and the Lu Xun Literature Prize.<\/p>\n

Sheng’s published work includes three full-length novels, Death Fugue,<\/em> Northern Girls<\/em> and House on Fire<\/em>, and several novellas and short-story collections, A Getting Warm Campaign<\/em>, At the Farewell Ceremony<\/em>, Book of Keyi<\/em>, and A World That Lacks Experience<\/em>. Sheng, who has been hailed as one of China’s boldest and socially-engaged novelists, also stands out, in the words of one critic, as “a ferocious experimenter with style and voice” whose work “covers a wide range of emotional and social territory.”<\/p>\n

Susan Jakes<\/strong> is a Senior Fellow with Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and the Editor of ChinaFile.com, a new online magazine about China. From 2000-2007 she reported for Time Magazine from Hong Kong and Beijing and was a frequent commentator on Chinese affairs for radio and television. She is the recipient of the Society of Publishers in Asia’s Young Journalist of the Year Award for her reporting on Chinese youth culture. In 2003 she broke the story of the government cover-up of the SARS outbreak in Beijing, for which she received the Henry Luce Public Service Award.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A conversation with one of China’s leading new novelists A conversation between fiction writer Sheng Keyi and Susan Jakes, Senior Fellow, Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society and the Editor of ChinaFile.com. 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