Granta #169
Granta #169 China
- Condition: New
- Language: English
- 272 Pages
- 14.60cm x 20.96cm (5.75" x 8.25")
- Published in London, UK
- Autumn 2024
- Frequency: Quarterly
No nation boasts more manufacturing capacity than the
People's Republic of China, yet few countries' literary products are less known
in the English-speaking world. Witnesses to the country's revolutionary
modernisation, China's writers have experienced historical whiplashes and
sprints forward on an extreme scale. The zhiqing - the
educated youth whom Mao 'sent down' to the countryside and who experienced a
decade of extreme austerity - are at a vast distance from the generations below
them, who have lived through an epoch of self-assertion and creative dreaming.
In China today, writers across generations look abroad, to new technologies, as
well as to rich veins in the Chinese literary past for new modes of expression.
Granta's special issue on the writing of contemporary China
collects the mainland's most thrilling voices. Featuring memoir from Xiao Hai
on moving to Shenzhen at fifteen to work in its factories, reportage from Han
Zhang, who visits the working-class writers carving out a living in Picun, as
well as new fiction from Mo Yan, Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, Shuang Xuetao, Zhang
Yueran, Ban Yu, Wang Zhanhei, Zhou Jingzhi, and many more. Poetry by Huang Fan, Lan Lan, Hu Xudong and Zheng Xiaoqiong. Photography by Feng Li, Haohui Liu, and Li Jie and Zhang Jungang.
Granta magazine and Granta Books share a remit to discover and publish the best in new literary fiction, memoir, reportage and poetry from around the world.
The magazine was founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, a periodical of student politics, badinage and literary enterprise, named after the river that runs through the town. In this original incarnation it published the work of writers like A.A. Milne, Michael Frayn, Stevie Smith, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
In 1979, Bill Buford and Pete de Bolla transformed Granta from a student publication to the literary quarterly it remains today. Each themed issue of Granta turns the attention of the world’s best writers on to one aspect of the way we live now.