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Obama Reading Recommendations for China
It seems as if everyone has reading recommendations for President Obama and earlier this week Pankaj Mishra weighed in on the subject at The China Beat.
One of Mishra’s recommendations was I Love Dollars: And Other Stories of China by Zhu Wen.
Here’s what Mishra wrote:
Notwithstanding the libraries devoted to China in the West today, literary fiction by Chinese writers still offers the most penetrating insight into Chinese society’s self-perceptions, and Obama could enjoyably and profitably spend some of the many hours on the flight to Beijing by reading a few stories in this excellent collection.
