Tag: the Apprentice

September 13, 2013

Julia Lovell on Zhu Wen

We conclude our week-long feature on The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan: More Stories of China,with an excerpt from Julia Lovell’s Translator’s Preface to Zhu Wen’s earlier collection of short stories, I Love Dollars. Don’t forget to enter...

September 12, 2013

Interview with Writer and Filmmaker Zhu Wen

In keeping with our featured book this week, Zhu Wen’s The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan, we cover today a 2011 interview of Zhu Wen, conducted by the Wang Ge of Timeout Beijing. In the interview, Wang discusses...

September 11, 2013

An Interview with Translator Julia Lovell

Read part of an interview with Julia Lovell, translator of Zhu Wen’s The Matchmaker, the Apprentice, and the Football Fan in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

September 10, 2013

Excerpt: "The Apprentice," by Zhu Wen

Read “The Apprentice,” an excerpt from Zhu Wen’s THE MATCHMAKER, THE APPRENTICE, AND THE FOOTBALL FAN.

July 25, 2013

Julia Lovell Discusses Zhu Wen with the Los Angeles Review of Books

There is certainly no shortage of writing about contemporary China by historians, journalists, and political scientists. While their work and analysis undoubtedly deepens our understanding of China, it is often left to fiction to fill in some of the gaps...