{"product_id":"granta-169-china","title":"Granta 169: China","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Nobel Prize-winning writers to debut novelists, \u003cbr\u003eBritain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best in new\u003cbr\u003ewriting, photography and art from around the world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo nation boasts more manufacturing capacity than the\u003cbr\u003ePeople's Republic of China, yet few countries' literary products are less known\u003cbr\u003ein the English-speaking world. Witnesses to the country's revolutionary\u003cbr\u003emodernisation, China's writers have experienced historical whiplashes and\u003cbr\u003esprints forward on an extreme scale. The \u003ci\u003ezhiqing\u003c\/i\u003e - the\u003cbr\u003eeducated youth whom Mao 'sent down' to the countryside and who experienced a\u003cbr\u003edecade of extreme austerity - are at a vast distance from the generations below\u003cbr\u003ethem, who have lived through an epoch of self-assertion and creative dreaming.\u003cbr\u003eIn China today, writers across generations look abroad, to new technologies, as\u003cbr\u003ewell as to rich veins in the Chinese literary past for new modes of expression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGranta's\u003c\/i\u003e special issue on the writing of contemporary China\u003cbr\u003ecollects the mainland's most thrilling voices. Featuring memoir from Xiao Hai\u003cbr\u003eon moving to Shenzhen at fifteen to work in its factories, reportage from Han\u003cbr\u003eZhang, who visits the working-class writers carving out a living in Picun, as\u003cbr\u003ewell as new fiction from Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, Shuang Xuetao, Zhang\u003cbr\u003eYueran, Ban Yu, Wang Zhanhei, Zhou Jingzhi, and many more. Poetry by Huang Fan, Lan Lan, Hu Xudong and\u003cbr\u003eZheng Xiaoqiong. Photography by Feng Li, Haohui Liu, and Li Jie and\u003cbr\u003eZhang Jungang.","brand":"Thomas Meaney","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46354743722220,"sku":"9781909889682","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781909889682.jpg?v=1776520829","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/granta-169-china","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}