Around the China Lit Fests This Weekend
Posted: March 19th, 2010 | No Comments »More China-related stuff at the last weekend of the China lit fests:
Saturday
A Most Immoral Woman Afternoon with Lina Jaivin – 13:00 – 14:00
Linda Jaivin talks about her latest novel, A Most Immoral Woman, which is set against the backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War and based on a steamy episode in the life of the famous Australian China Correspondent George Morrison.
The Year of the Shanghai Shark – 16:00 – 17:00
Mo Zhi Hong’s debut novel unpretentiously showcases modern China through characters, young and old, who deal with the situations and issues during the Year of the Shanghai Shark – the year of Yao Ming’s rise in Shanghai, SARS and the Iraq War. The book won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award 2009 for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In conversation with Steve McCarty
Sunday
The History of Photgraphy in China, 1842-1860 – Saturday, 11:00 – 12:00
From 1842, when the use of a camera was first recorded in China, foreign and Chinese photographers captured the people, places and events of this unsettled period. They were professional portraitists, soldiers and pioneering amateurs, Terry Bennett, shares the story and the images behind his comprehensive history of the earliest years of photography in China: the discovery of photography framed against the tumultuous backdrop of the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion and the opening of numerous treaty ports to foreign trade.
A Post-Colonial View of Colonial Asia -14:00 – 15:00
What does colonial Asia look like from the inside? Malaysian-born Tash Aw moves on from Conrad and Maugham to offer a post-colonial take on colonial-era Malaysia and Indonesia in his exquisitely written novels (the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize award-winning Harmony Silk Factory and his new, acclaimed novel, Map of the Invisible World.)
The Bloody White Baron – 15:00 – 16:00
Namu: Leaving Mother Lake – 7.30
Leaving Mother Lake is the extraordinary story of Yang Erche Namu – a girl from the Musuo ethnic group who grew up in a small village near Lugu Lake in northern Yunnan. It is a place known as the ‘Country of Daughters’ because of its matriarchal society: there is no word for father; property is passed on from mother to daughter; women choose lovers for as long as they like; and men mostly sleep in the stables. Namu left her remarkable childhood behind for the bright lights of Shanghai and a celebrity career, one that has never shied away from controversy
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