{"id":94133,"date":"2025-06-27T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/events-archive\/new-voices-from-china\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T08:34:47","slug":"new-voices-from-china","status":"publish","type":"events-archive","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/new-voices-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"New Voices from China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Shuang Xuetao \u2013 Li\u00e8r\u00e9n<\/strong><br>HUNTER<br>An ambulance struggles in vain to find a hospital at night, a failed actor is standing on the rooftop of a highrise as he tries his hand at assassination, a once-legendary knife fighter toils in a factory. In \u00bbHunter\u00ab [trans. Jeremy Tiang], Shuang Xuetao depicts a China that is far removed from glamour and metropolis \u2013 stories from the industrial north, characterized by violence, longing and black humor. \u00bbMagical and gritty &#8230; An ambitious portrait of the struggle to thrive in the Chinese equivalent of the \u203aAmerican Wild West\u2039.\u00ab [Kirkus Review on \u00bbRogue Street\u00ab] <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zhang Yueran \u2013 TI\u0100N&#8217;\u00c9 L\u01daGU\u01cdN<\/strong><br>SCHWANENTAGE<br>A nanny, a boy, a plan: in \u00bbWoman, Seated\u00ab [trans. Jeremy Tiang], Yu Ling, who has been working for an influential family for years, kidnaps their young son Kuan Kuan to demand ransom. But the patriarch is arrested for corruption, the mother flees, and Yu is the only one left to look after the child. \u00bbZhang Yueran&#8217;sscenes and images have a world-weary glow that is characterized by both hard-won insight and timeless truth.\u00ab [Ian McEwan]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In cooperation with Heinrich-B\u00f6ll-Stiftung e.V.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Shuang Xuetao, Zhang Yueran<br>Moderated by Katharina Borchardt<br>Read by Frank Arnold<br>Interpreted by Wang Ge, Yan Shi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will be held in Mandarin with simultaneous translation into German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bbHunter\u00ab was translated from Mandarin into English by Jeremy Tiang.<br>\u00bbSchwanentage\u00ab was translated from Mandarin into German by Karin Betz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","tags":[],"jct-program-properties":[808],"jct-ilb-years":[906],"jct-program-categories":[796],"class_list":["post-94133","events-archive","type-events-archive","status-publish","hentry","jct-program-properties-livestream-en","jct-ilb-years-2024-en","jct-program-categories-evening-program"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Voices from China &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/new-voices-from-china\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Voices from China &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shuang Xuetao \u2013 Li\u00e8r\u00e9nHUNTERAn ambulance struggles in vain to find a hospital at night, a failed actor is standing on the rooftop of a highrise as he tries his hand at assassination, a once-legendary knife fighter toils in a factory. 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