{"id":749,"date":"2012-02-25T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T04:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2012-02-25T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T04:19:36","slug":"paul-masons-top-10-books-about-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Paul Mason’s top 10 books about China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mine<\/a>English novelist and Newsnight<\/em> economics editor Paul Mason has compiled a top-ten list <\/a>of books on China he found helpful for his novel Rare Earth<\/em> (here’s a review <\/a>of the novel by scholar-translator Julia Lovell<\/a>), comprising five works of fiction in translation (including Lu Xun<\/a> \u9b6f\u8fc5, Mo Yan<\/a> \u83ab\u8a00, Gao Xingjian<\/a> \u9ad8\u884c\u5065, Wang Xiaobo<\/a> \u738b\u5c0f\u6ce2, and The Plum in the Golden Vase<\/em><\/a> \u91d1\u74f6\u6885–and he mentions the translators!) and five works of social science or historical or literary scholarship (including a work by friend and follower of this blog, Charles Laughlin<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It’s an interesting list. I’m glad to see literature in translation so well represented. As a novelist, it makes sense that Mason would be so drawn to fiction, but I wonder what it would take for works of Chinese poetry to make it onto such a list. Certainly I think Xi Chuan can be helpful for readers looking to know more about China, though of course the instruction does not travel in direct lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

English novelist and Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason has compiled a top-ten list of books on China he found helpful for his novel Rare Earth (here’s a review of the novel by scholar-translator Julia Lovell), comprising five works of fiction … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16,7],"tags":[384,386,382,383,189,381,385,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-c5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":813,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=813","url_meta":{"origin":749,"position":0},"title":"Chris Livaccari on Overcoming Misconceptions about China","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Salon.com posted an interview with Chris Livaccari of the Asia Society (New York) with a guided reading list of how to overcome misconceptions about China. 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