China Market Focus at The London Book Fair 2012
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Once again the British Council, The London Book Fair and the official Market Focus partner organisations have produced a comprehensive brochure. This includes the full listings for the Cultural Programme devised in partnership with the British Council; the Professional Programme; and the China Pavilion events; along with a list of all Chinese writers and publishers attending.
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- China Market Focus 16-18 April 2012
- InformationThe London Book FairThe London Book Fair Opening
TimesEarls Court Exhibition Centre Monday 16 April 2012 09.00
18.30Warwick Road Tuesday 17 April 2012 09.00 18.30London Wednesday
18 April 2012 09.00 17.00SW5 9TAChina Market Focus
ContactsProfessional Programme Press EnquiriesThe London Book Fair
MIDAS Public RelationsAmy Webster Nicola
GreenAmy.Webster@reedexpo.co.uk
Nicola.Green@midaspr.co.ukwww.londonbookfair.co.uk T +44 (0)20 7361
7860T +44 (0)20 8910 7872Cultural Programme Press EnquiriesBritish
Council FMcM AssociatesJudith Ldenbach Fiona
McMorroughJudith.Luedenbach@britishcouncil.org
fionam@fmcm.co.ukwww.britishcouncil.org/literature T +44 (0)20 7405
7422T +44 (0)20 7389 3197Chinese Authors & Publishers,China
Pavilion Press EnquiriesChinese Organising Committee Rochester PR
GroupGeneral Administration for Press and Joanna DoddPublications
Joanna.Dodd@rochesterprgroup.co.ukChina Writers Association T +44
(0)20 7182 4090China National Publications Import& Export
(Group) Corporation
- ContentsChina Market Focus 2012 04Cultural Programme Venue
05Cultural Programme 06Professional Programme 12Chinese Organising
Committee events at 16The London Book FairAuthors 19Publishers
52The London Book Fair 69British Council 70Chinese Partners
71Supporting Partners 72
- China Market Focus 2012 New Perspectives New Concepts The
London Book Fair, with its longstanding Market Focus cultural
programme partner the British Council, and this year in partnership
with the General Administration for Press and Publication of China
and their delivery partners, CUPP and CNPIEC, is delighted to
welcome the China Market Focus into the spotlight for 2012. Since
the launch of the China Market Focus programme eighteen months ago,
UK and Chinese publishers and writers have been engaging with each
others markets through a number of targeted seminars, delegations
and workshops. This will now culminate in a celebration of
contemporary Chinese literature and a showcase of Chinese
publishing that will mark New Perspectives New Concepts in bringing
Chinese writing and publishing to the world. The Market Focus
programme aims to strengthen cultural and business relations,
educate the global publishing community about Chinese literature
and contemporary Chinese authors, and help Chinese publishers to
promote their books and literature to an international audience via
the fair. The cultural programme detailed in these pages will
showcase the Chinese writers visiting The London Book Fair through
seminars, readings and events in and around the fair. These provide
the opportunity for this new generation of Chinese writers to
discuss topics of relevance in front of an international literary
audience and to meet their international peers. Furthermore it
offers the exposure for rights and export sales from the
international publishing community. The professional programme
running concurrently at the fair will offer educational
opportunities for those interested in learning about different
aspects of the Chinese publishing industry. Details of the
programme and the participating Chinese publishers are also
included in this brochure. With the largest publishing output in
the world by volume and a dynamic collection of Chinese writers
ready to share their work with an international audience, now could
not be a better time to look at the business, cultural and
collaborative opportunities presented by the China Market Focus
2012, China New Perspectives New Concepts. We look forward to
welcoming you to the programme. Alistair Burtenshaw Susie Nicklin
Liu Binjie Group Exhibition Director Director Literature Chairman
The London Book Fair British Council Chinese Organising Committee04
China Market Focus Programme 2012
- Cultural Programme VenueThis year the bulk of the Cultural
Programme at The London Book Fair will takeplace in the Whitehall
Room. This is located at the back of Earls Court 2, on the
firstfloor mezzanine, as shown in the maps below. We look forward
to seeing you there. Overall floor plan for Earls Court Level one
room layout China Market Focus Programme 2012 05
- Cultural Programme The London Book Fair, Earls Court Monday 16
April Modern Chinese Masters 11.30 12.30 Whitehall Room Speakers:
Annie Baby, Li Er Chair: Harvey Thomlinson Join us for the launch
of two new books in translation by Annie Baby and Li Er, together
with their translators and publisher Harvey Thomlinson. 13.00 14.00
From Page to Screen Whitehall Room Speakers: Yan Geling, Xiaolu
Guo, Owen Sheers, Han Dong Chair: Megan Walsh Four writers who have
celebrated success both on page and on screen discuss the
particular challenges and rewards of being a writer of fiction as
well as a screenwriter. 16.00 17.00 A Female Perspective Whitehall
Room Speakers: Tie Ning, Bi Feiyu Chair: Rachel Holmes Two
celebrated writers, one male, one female, discuss the process of
creating female characters who reflect the lives of Chinese women
in the recent past. Tuesday 17 April Publishing Chinese Authors in
the UK 10.00 11.00 Literary Translation Centre, EC2, LBF Speakers:
Marysia Juszczakiewicz, Julia Lovell, Ra Page Chair: Ellah Allfrey
Reflecting this years London Book Fair China Market Focus, Marysia
Juszczakiewicz, founder of the Peony Literary Agency based in Hong
Kong, translator, author and lecturer at Birkbeck Julia Lovell and
Ra Page, founder and Managing Editor of Comma Press, share with
Grantas Deputy Editor Ellah Allfrey their experiences of bringing
contemporary Chinese literature to the UK and discuss the future of
translated Chinese fiction in British publishing. 11.00 12.00
Science Fiction Whitehall Room Speakers: A Lai, Liu Cixin, Jonathan
Clements Chair: John Clute John Clute, science fiction writer and
editor of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, discusses the genre
with fellow co-editor Jonathan Clements, A Lai, former editor of
Science Fiction World, and acclaimed science fiction writer Liu
Cixin.06 China Market Focus Programme 2012
- 12.30 13.30 Ancient Myths in Contemporary Fiction Whitehall
Room Speakers: A Lai, Tsering Norbu Chair: Maya Jaggi A Lai and
Tsering Norbu explore why ancient myths fascinate us until today
and how these timeless stories can be brought into the 21st
century.14.00 15.00 Writing for a Digital World Whitehall Room
Speakers: Annie Baby, A Yi, Canaan Morse, Naomi Alderman Chair:
Rebecca Swift Annie Baby and A Yi achieved initial success through
posting their work online, rather than through print publishing.
They consider the effect the digital world has on contemporary
literature and the opportunities it presents to writers globally
together with translator Canaan Morse and novelist and digital
expert Naomi Alderman.14.00 15.30 New Perspectives in Chinese &
British Literature Hampton Room Speakers: Tie Ning, Liu Zhenyun,
Louise Doughty, Mo Yan, A Lai, Jill Dawson Chair: Julia Lovell Join
some of the most celebrated Chinese and British writers as they
talk about their work and what it means to be a writer in China and
the UK.15.30 16.30 Chinese Childrens Literature Whitehall Room
Speakers: Yang Hongying Chair: Nicolette Jones British readers are
all too aware of the British superstars in childrens literature,
such as J.K. Rowling, Michael Morpurgo or Julia Donaldson. In an
attempt to find out more about the world of Chinese childrens
literature, one of Chinas most popular authors in this genre joins
us to discuss her writing.17.00 18.00 The Art of Publishing
Literary Magazines Whitehall Room Speakers: A Lai, Li Jingze, Eric
Abrahamsen, Ou Ning Chair: John Freeman New literary magazines, be
it online or in print, are being launched almost on a daily basis
in China. Former editor A Lai, Chutzpah! editor Ou Ning and
literary critic Li Jingze and translator Eric Abrahamsen, both from
Pathlight magazine, share their views on why this format is
experiencing such a surge in popularity. China Market Focus
Programme 2012 07
- Wednesday 18 April Contemporary Chinese Poetry 10.00 11.00
Whitehall Room Speakers: Han Dong, Xi Chuan, Pascale Petit Chair:
Michel Hockx Contemporary Chinese poetry is constantly evolving,
drawing both on the ancient and rich poetic tradition in China as
well as on influences from around the world. Xi Chuan and Han Dong,
two of Chinas most celebrated contemporary poets, read from their
work with fellow poet Pascale Petit and reflect on this evocative
and thought- provoking genre. 11.30 12.30 Urban Landscapes
Speakers: Liu Zhenyun, Xu Zechen, Sheng Keyi Chair: Richard Lea The
ever growing urban landscapes in modern China are changing the
traditional way of life irrevocably. The challenges posed to many
Chinese today of living in these enormous cities forms the focus of
much of Liu Zhenyuns, Xu Zechens and Sheng Keyis work. 14.00 15.00
Contemporary China on the Page Speakers: Chi Zijian, Xinran, Feng
Tang Chair: Rachel Holmes Chinese society has been undergoing
monumental changes and is constantly evolving under the influence
of Chinas changing status in the world. Chi Zijian, Feng Tang and
fellow author Xinran discuss how contemporary literature is
reflecting these transformations and the effect they have on the
life of Chinese people today. 15.30 16.30 Rural China Speakers: Li
Er, Mo Yan, Lu Jiande Chair: Julia Lovell Amidst rapid
urbanization, the rural setting in contemporary fiction has
acquired new meaning in China. Authors Mo Yan and Li Er debate with
literature expert Lu Jiande the role of life outside the city in
contemporary fiction, forming the background to explorations of
tradition and change.08 China Market Focus Programme 2012
- Events in LondonSunday 15 April The New Superpowers16.00 Weston
Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere
Road, London SE1 8XX Speakers: Feng Tang, Neel Mukherjee Chair:
Maya Jaggi Neel Mukherjee and Feng Tang discuss the role of the
writer in India and China respectively, as the two countries emerge
as the new global superpowers for 21 century. Feng Tang divides his
time between Hong Kong, Beijing and travelling internationally. His
books show his sharp wit and are written in the brazen, colloquial
language and school-yard slang of the new urban youth. Neel
Mukherjees debut novel A Life Apart tells the story of Ritwiks
flight from the squalor of Calcutta to urban London. Here he meets
the 86 year-old Anne Cameron, and two lives from opposite ends of
the 20 century are brought together. Tickets: 10, booking line:
0844 847 9910, or visit www.southbankcentre.co.ukMonday 16 April
Changing China18.45 Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London,
W1G 7LP Speakers: Chi Zijian, Chiew-Siah Tei Chair: Isabel Hilton
In a rapidly changing China, traditional ways of life are
threatened by modernisation. Two debut authors whose novels are
built on these conflicts will talk about the struggles of
individuals and families as the world changes around them, with the
editor of chinadialogue.net, Isabel Hilton. Tickets: Booking 020
7307 5454, or email enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk19.00 Jade Ladder
London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL Speakers: Xi
Chuan, Yang Lian, W N Herbert Poets Xi Chuan, one of the most
influential voices in contemporary Chinese poetry, and Yang Lian
and W N Herbert, the editors of Jade Ladder (Bloodaxe), a new
anthology showing the work of Chinese poets today to be among the
most exciting experiments in world poetry, will read and talk about
their work. Tickets: 7, Booking line 020 726 9030, or visit
www.lrbshop.co.uk/events China Market Focus Programme 2012 09
- Wednesday 18 April Shi Cheng: City Stories from China 18.30 The
British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Speakers: Han Dong, Xu Zechen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell Chair:
Philip Dodd Both Chinas contemporary literature and its urban
cultures are vast and incomparably diverse, yet little known in the
West. At this event launching a Comma Press anthology of newly
translated stories, some of the most exciting young authors working
in China meet leading experts from the UK to explore the riches and
tensions of these worlds. Tickets: 7.50 (5 conc), booking line
01937 546546, or visit boxoffice.bl.uk 19.00 An evening with A Lai
Room G3, School of Oriental & African Studies, College
Buildings, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Speakers: A Lai Chair:
Nathan Hill Part of the SOAS Circle of Tibetan & Himalayan
Studies series. Thursday 19 April Sheng Keyi and Ross Raisin in
conversation 18.30 Gallery at Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road,
London WC2A 0EB Speakers: Sheng Keyi, Ross Raisin Chair: Richard
Lea Sheng Keyis first novel Northern Girls explores the
difficulties faced by women moving from the countryside in the hope
of finding work in Chinas growing cities. Join us tonight as she
discusses how her own experiences helped her create such a resonant
account with Ross Raisin, award-winning author of Gods Own Country
and Waterline. Tickets: Free, e-mail events@foyles.co.uk to reserve
a place 19.00 An evening with Mo Yan Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT),
Lower Ground Floor, School of Oriental & African Studies,
Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Speakers: Mo Yan Chair: Michel
Hockx Organised by the SOAS London Confucius Centre and Centre of
Chinese Studies Tickets: Free, but registration is required by
telephone 020 7898 4892/3, or email centres@soas.ac.uk10 China
Market Focus Programme 2012
- Events in the UKThursday 19 April Contemporary Chinese Writers
in Edinburgh18.00 Confucius Institute for Scotland in the
University of Edinburgh, Abden House, 1 Marchhall Crescent,
Edinburgh EH16 5HP Chair: Alan Bissett Speakers: Annie Baby, Xu
Zechen In a first for Scotland, Xu Zechen, leading editor and
novelist, and Annie Baby, online literary sensation, will be in
conversation with Alan Bissett. Both nations, vast and small, have
experienced their own forms of profound social and economic change
how do writers from each culture reflect this? Tickets: 5 (includes
drinks reception after event) booking line 0131 662 2180 or visit
www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/19.00 Shi Cheng: City Stories from
China Manchester Launch The International Anthony Burgess
Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3 Cambridge Street,
Manchester, M1 5BY Speakers: Han Dong, Nicky Harman To mark the
publication of Commas new city-themed fiction project Manchester is
delighted to host an evening with a key figure in contemporary
Chinese literature. Han Dong is well-known as one of Chinas most
important avant-garde poets, and is becoming increasingly
influential as an essayist, short story writer and novelist. He is
in conversation with his translator, Nicky Harman. Supported by the
Confucius Centre and University of Manchester. Tickets: Free19.00
Jade Ladder Anthology Launch Culture Lab, Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU Speakers: Xi Chuan, Yang Lian, W N
Herbert, Brian Holton Yang Lian & Xi Chuan, two of Chinas most
prominent poets, join Yang Lians co-editor, W N Herbert, and
anthology editor & translator, Brian Holton, to launch Jade
Ladder. This anthology shows authoritatively the diversity of
contemporary Chinese poetry, in the most comprehensive single
volume guide to what is happening now in a culture of undeniable
global significance. Tickets: 6/4 (conc)/2 (Newcastle University
students) online at webstore.ncl.ac.uk, or contact Melanie Birch
0191 222 7619Sunday 22 April Opening Up the East15.00 Shakespeare
Centre, Henley Street, Stratford CV37 6QW Speakers: Mo Yan, Lu
Jiande The Stratford Literary Festival hosts a unique discussion
with two of the most notable writers in China today. They discuss
their work, China in the 21st century and how cultural life differs
from that in the West Tickets: 12 with tea (1 off for over 60s and
under 16s), booking line 01789 207100 or visit www.civichall.co.uk
China Market Focus Programme 2012 11
- Professional Programme 1 China and Europe Publishing Forum
Monday 16th April Growth, Co-operation, and Development in 14.30
17.15 International Publishing There has been a long history of
co-operation between China Location and Europe in the copyright
trade and in publishing, which Earls Court Exhibition goes back to
the 1980s. The Chinese Publishing industry Centre, Conference has
achieved record growth as a result of modernization Room 1 and
consolidation in the past few years and the Chinese Government is
now promoting the outward expansion of Sponsors the Chinese
publishing industry. Publishing in the United General
Administration Kingdom has played a key part in the international
expansion of Press and of creative industries, especially in the
context of the global Publication of China use of the English
Language. Chinas engagement in the and The London international
book trade and the growing use of the Chinese Book Fair Language
will create new challenges and opportunities for all international
publishers as the rapid digitalization of the Organisers industry
continues. These factors set the stage for the China China National
Market Focus China Country of Honour Programme at London
Publications Import Book Fair 2012, and the China Europe
International Publishing & Export (Group) Forum will consider
these issues in a European Context. Corporation and The London Book
Fair Invited Speakers Language Co-Chairs Chinese and English Li
Pengyi, President of China Education Publishing and (Simultaneous
Media Group Interpretation) Chris Paterson, China Publishing
Consultant to The London Book Fair No pre-registration required
Keynote speakers Ed Vaizey, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for Communications, Culture & the Creative Industries Liu
Binjie, Minister of GAPP of China Speakers Tan Yue, President of
China Publishing Group Victoria Barnsley, Chief Executive of
HarperCollins Li Pengyi, President of China Education Publishing
and Media Group John Fallon, CEO of Pearson International Education
Chen Haiyan, Chairman of Phoenix Publishing Group Nigel Newton, CEO
of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Lord Powell of Bayswater, former
President of the China Britain Business Council12 China Market
Focus Programme 2012
- 2 China-UK Digital ForumTuesday 17 April New trends and new
products in digital publishing09.30 12.15 in China and UK
Digitalisation has been the major challenge and opportunityLocation
facing traditional publishers in China and the United KingdomThames
Room, Earls for the past five years. We are now entering a new
phase inCourt Exhibition which publishers have embraced the new
technologies inCentre educational, scientific, and general
publishing and are not only reproducing print content in digital
form, but creatingSponsors stand-alone titles in digital formats
for the new media. InGeneral Administration this seminar publishers
will share evolving business modelsof Press and and show innovative
new digital releases which show howPublication of China publishers
are approaching their new markets.and The LondonBook Fair This
forum comprises two parts. Part 1 will consist of a China and UK
keynote speech by a major industry figure, and in PartOrganisers 2
three presenters from each country will be invited to makeChina
National introduce digital developments in the industry and in
theirPublications Import company followed by a screen based
showcase of a leading& Export (Group) product.Corporation and
TheLondon Book Fair Invited SpeakersLanguage Co-ChairsChinese and
English Richard Mollet, Chief Executive of the
Publishers(Simultaneous AssociationInterpretation) Li Pengyi,
President of China Education Publishing and Media Group Keynote
Speakers Liu Binjie, Minister of GAPP of China Rod Bristow,
President of the Publishers Association Speakers Chen Xin,
President of Shanghai Century Publishing Group Steven Inchcoombe,
MD, Nature Publishing Group Wang Mingliang, GM, Tongfang Network
Technology Co. Ian Hudson, Deputy CEO of Random House Ho Feipeng,
President of Taiwan Cite Publishing Ltd Fionnuala Duggan, MD of
International CourseSmart China Market Focus Programme 2012 13
- 3 CLT and ELT Publishing Dialogue Tuesday 17 April Synergies
and Differences between CLT (Chinese 14.00 17.00 Language Teaching)
and ELT (English Language Teaching) Publishing Location Just as
English Language Teaching publishing was the forerunner Thames
Room, Earls of international publishers presence in the Chinese
publishing Court Exhibition market, Chinese Language Teaching
publishing has the potential Centre to open doors for Chinese
publishers in todays international markets. Just as the teaching of
English as an established global Sponsors language was a priority
for Chinese education, the teaching General Administration of
Chinese will grow from its existing base in tandem with the of
Press and growth and globalization of the Chinese economy. The
number of Publication of China students enrolled in Chinese
Language classes at the worldwide and The London Confucius
Institutes is increasing by almost 40% every year. Book Fair
Chinese Language Teaching will become an important market for
International and Chinese publishers alike. This seminar is to
Organisers discuss areas in which ELT and CLT publishing businesses
can China National learn from each other, and areas in which they
may continue Publications Import to differ. These issues are key to
the future development of the & Export (Group) international
publishing market and the seminar will invite experts Corporation
and The from the CLT and ELT publishing fields to share their
experiences London Book Fair and comment on what the future may
hold in key developments in the international market place.
Language Chinese and English (Simultaneous Invited Speakers
Interpretation) Co-Chairs Madam Xu Lin, State Counsellor and
Director-General of Hanban Dr Catherine Walter, Chairperson of the
ELT Advisory Board, British Council Keynote Speakers Wu Shulin,
Vice Minister of GAPP of China Martin Davidson, CEO, The British
Council Speakers Li Pengyi, President of China Education Publishing
and Media Group Stephen Bourne, CEO of Cambridge University Press
Qi Dexiang, President of Beijing Language and Culture University
Press Peter Marshall, MD, ELT Division, Oxford University Press Yu
Dianli, President of Commercial Press of CPG Bill Anderson, MD,
Global ELT Publishing, Pearson Education Cai Jianfeng, President of
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Dennis Hogan,
Executive Director, National Geographic Learning14 China Market
Focus Programme 2012
- 4 Professional Publishing Forum: Cooperation and
Win-winWednesday 18 April China/UK Publishing Partnerships and
International09.30 12.20 Publishing Copyright trade and
co-publishing are the main modesLocation of international
co-operation for professional publishers.Thames Room, Earls China
and UK have long been cooperating in the publishingCourt Exhibition
industry with lots of books introduced both ways. The firstCentre
part of this forum will invite professional publishers to share
their experiences and provide solutions through the caseSponsors
studies of their successful cooperation and partnership inGeneral
Administration pairs. During the second part of the forum the
publishers willof Press and discuss wider cooperation in
international publishing tradePublication of China and
investment.and The LondonBook Fair Invited SpeakersOrganisers
Co-ChairsChina National Yu Chunchi, Vice President of China
Education PublishingPublications Import and Media Group& Export
(Group) Nigel Portwood, CEO, Oxford University Press, for Part
1Corporation and The Chris Paterson, China Publishing Consultant to
The LondonLondon Book Fair Book Fair, for Part 2Language Keynote
speakersChinese and English Wu Shulin, Vice Minister of
GAPP(Simultaneous Lord Green of Hustpierpoint, Minister of State
for TradeInterpretation) and Investment Part 1: Investment
partnerships in China Hachette Phoenix JV Arnaud Nourry, CEO of
Hachette Livre Chen Haiyan, Chairman of Phoenix Publishing and
Media Group Macmillan and FLTRP joint publishing Simon Allen, CEO,
Macmillan Education Cai Jianfeng, President, Foreign Language
Teaching and Research Press Part 2: Co-operation in International
Publishing Trade and Investment Tan Yue, President, CPG Nigel
Portwood, CEO Oxford University Press He Yaomin, President, China
Renmin University Press Stephen Bourne, CEO, CUP China Market Focus
Programme 2012 15
- Chinese Organising Committee events at The London Book Fair
Monday 16 April Cultural Heritage and Communication 12.30 13.30
Chinese Pavilion, Earls Court 2 Speakers: Wang Meng, Margaret
Drabble 14.05 15.50 Pathlight: Enlightenment of Contemporary
Chinese Literature Piccadilly Room, Earls Court 1 Speakers: Li
Jingze, Mo Yan, Liu Zhenyun, Li Er, Qiu Huadong, Xi Chuan, Liu
Xinglong, Eric Abrahamsen To discuss the approaches to introduce
contemporary Chinese literature to the world through translation
and the function of translation in the process 14.30 15.00 Yang
Honying Pictorial Building Character Series Richmond Room, Earls
Court 1 Speaker: Yang Hongying 16.00 16.45 Chinese Childrens
Literature, Inspiring the World Piccadilly Room, Earls Court 1
Speakers: Shen Shixi, Wu Meizhen; Frank Knau PTP & Egmont Group
present 24 Childrens titles in 8 languages, whilst Launching two
new works: 3 Titles of An Unusual Princess Series by Wu Meizhen and
The Red Jackal by Shen Shixi Tuesday 17 April Foreign Editions
Exhibition of Confucius from the 9.30 10.30 Heart Chinese Pavilion,
Earls Court 2 Speakers: Yu Dan Confucius from the Heart has been
published in 17 languages, 22 editions, including the hardcover,
paperback, clubs, MP3 radio, as well as electronic editions,
spreading Chinese traditional culture to a greater audience. 10.30
11.30 The Growth and Developing Direction of Chinese Post-1970s and
Post-1980s Writers Under the Influence of World Literature Hampton
Room, Earls Court 2 Speakers: Jiang Nan, Zhang Yueran Chair: Bai Ye
To discuss the writing characteristics, quality, advantages,
disadvantages and space of growth of the new generation of Chinese
authors. The discussion will involve the elements of the growth
route of post-70s and post-80s Chinese authors, the influence
caused by the crossover of traditional Chinese background and world
literature after the opening in late 1980s plus their personal and
their peers growth in writing career.16 China Market Focus
Programme 2012
- 14.00 15.30 New Perspectives in Chinese and British Literature
Hampton Room, Earls Court 2 Speakers: Tie Ning, Liu Zhenyun, and
Louise Doughty, Mo Yan, A Lai and Jill Dawson Chair: Julia Lovell
Join some of the most celebrated Chinese and British writers as
they talk about their work and what it means to be a writer in
China and the UK. 15.00 15.45 Literary Character in the New Media
Age Piccadilly Room, Earls Court 1 Speakers: Bai Ye, Liu Xinglong
Chair: Bai Zhigang Bai Ye, a well-known critic, and Liu Xinglong, a
famous writer, will talk about the relation between literary
character and the writer; the challenges that a literary character
is confronted with in the modern age; literary character; and
literary education 16.30 18.00 Dialogue on the Publishing of
Literature Books Hampton Room, Earls Court 2 Speakers: Chi Zijian,
Bi Feiyu, Richard Francis This dialogue focuses on how to maintain
national individuality and integrity in the context of
globalisation and digitalisation, and how literature creation
continues to play its role in promoting human civilisation in a new
era of overall dialogues between cultures across the
world.Wednesday 18 April The Impact of Internet Media on Literature
and9.30 10.30 Writing Piccadilly Room, Earls Court 1 Speakers: Xu
Kun, Tong Muisiu Chair: Liu Xinglong New broadcasting media
represented by television, movies, and the internet have great
impact on literary development. Its features, such as imagination,
promulgation, and commercialisation, have cut down the power of
classic literature, whilst simultaneously making a new turning
point for literary creation. Chinese writers will talk about the
impact of internet media on literature and writing. China Market
Focus Programme 2012 17
- 11.00 12.00 Publishing and Literature Dialogue Chinese
Pavilion, Earls Court 2 Speakers: Mo Yan, Marina Lewycka Both
enjoying a long history of literature, China and Britain are homes
to classical books and great writers. Today they also have
prominent writers and works of contemporary literature. The
dialogue between representative Chinese and British writers, one
from each side, will touch on the trans- boundary and diverse
appeals of a world of literature and the charm of literature of the
world. 13.00 14.00 My Road to Literature Chinese Pavilion, Earls
Court 2 Speakers: Lan Pochou, Choi Yickwai Chair: Liu Xianping
Writers from Hong Kong and Taiwan will share their stories on the
literature road with the audience.18 China Market Focus Programme
2012
- Authors A Lai A Yi Annie Baby Bai Ye Bi Feiyu Choi Yickwai Chi
Zijian Feng Tang Guo Xiaolu Han Dong Jiang Nan Lan Pochou Li Er Li
Jingze Liu Cixin Liu Xinglong Liu Zhenyun Mo Yan Qiu Huadong Sheng
Keyi Shen Shixi Tie Ning Tong Muisiu Tsering Norbu Wang Meng Xi
Chuan Xu Kun Xu Zechen Yan Geling Yang Hongying Yu Dan Zhang Yueran
China Market Focus Programme 2012 19
- A Lai Recent published titles One of Chinas few famous Tibetan
writers, A Lai started his literary career in the 1980s as a poet.
In the decade thatRed Poppies / followed he worked as an editor at
the literary magazineThe Empty Mountain / Grasslands and later as
Director of Science Fiction World,A Treasured Sword / which became
the largest-circulating science fiction magazine in the world. His
first well-received work afterPublished titles in English switching
to fiction was the novel Settling Dust (1998), whichKing Gesar
narrates the rise and fall of a Tibetan family in times ofTibetan
Souls (2011) modernization. It was translated as Red Poppies and
madeRed Poppies (2002) into an award winning film.Literary award
received A Lai didnt publish anything more substantial until Empty
Mountain, a collection of six interconnected short stories,Dangdai
Literary Prize 2009 in 2005. His newest novel, King Gesar, is a
retelling of aMao Dun Literary Award in 1998 & 2000 popular
Tibetan myth that was commissioned as part of theEthnic Minority
Literature Award 1989 Canongate Myth Series (it is due to be
published in the UK in the near future). He taps deeply into a
mythic interpretationAssociated publisher of Tibetan history and
culture, and his best-selling works areWriters Publishing House
those that have leaned on legendary narratives.Shanghai Dongfang
Publishing CentreCanongate (UK)MerwinAsia (USA) Programmed events
Science Fiction in China 17 April, 11.00, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF
Ancient Myths in Contemporary Fiction 17 April, 12.30, Whitehall
Room, EC2, LBF New Perspectives in Chinese and British Literature
17 April, 14.00, Hampton Room, EC2, LBF The Art of Publishing
Literary Magazines 17 April, 17.00, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF An
evening with Ah Lai 18 April, 19.00, Room G3, School of Oriental
& African Studies, College Buildings, Russell Square, London
WC1H 0XG20 China Market Focus Programme 2012
- A Yi Recent published titles Born in 1976, A Yi worked as a
police officer, secretary and editor before settling down at the
age of 32 to theGrey Stories / fiction he always knew he would
write. After a brief stint onThe Bird Saw Me / the editorial board
of Chutzpah, a new literary magazineCat and Mouse / featuring work
by younger and edgier writers, he moved toWhat Should I Do Next /
the Xiron publishing company, where he works as an editor of the
"Iron Gourd" literary-fiction imprint. Although he has been posting
short stories and commentary on his blogAssociated publisher since
the beginning of 2004, A Yi did not appear in printCulture and Art
Publishing House until four years later when his first collection
of short prose, Grey Stories, was published.Agent A Yis stubborn
dedication to his art has meant his slowlyPeony Literary Agency
growing prominence has depended on the support of non- mainstream
media and literary figures who have spotted his talent. Although
hailed by opinion leaders and writers such as Bei Dao, Luo Yonghao
and Li Jingze, A Yis reputation has not yet spread to a wider
reading public in China. Programmed events Writing for the Digital
World 17 April, 14.00, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF China Market Focus
Programme 2012 21
- Annie Baby Recent published titles Having worked for IT
companies, advertising agencies and publishers, Annie Baby began
publishing short stories onlineGoodbye Vivien / in 1998, when she
was twenty-four, becoming one of ChinasAugust is Passing / first
internet literary sensations. Within a medium bestLotus /
understood by adolescent and twenty-something urbanites like
herself, she wrote about them and their lives theirPublished titles
in English worries, loneliness and disorientation in particular.The
Road of Others (2012) Annie Baby quickly became a household name
among theAssociated publisher Chinese youth and her first printed
book, the short storyMake Do Studios (Hong Kong, collection
Goodbye, Vivian, sold half a million copies. Shes been a commercial
success ever since, with her latest novelEnglish version) Lotus
topping the domestic bestseller lists for months.Agent She writes
in a broken, ultra-simplified, seemingly distractedPeony Literary
Agency style that has become characteristic of online prose
worldwide. Her narratives tend to explore the relationships between
interior spirituality and exterior reality, and she has begun to
incorporate other art forms combining photography and music with
her prose. Programmed events Modern Chinese Masters 16 April,
11.30, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF Writing for the Digital World 17
April, 14.00, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF Contemporary Writers in
Edinburgh 19 April, 18.00, Confucius Centre for Scotland, Abden
House, Edinburgh EH16 5HP22 China Market Focus Programme 2012
- Bai Ye Recent published titles Bai Ye has been publishing his
works since 1977 and joined the Chinese Writers Association in
1984. He has since beenNew Literary Fashions & Fresh an
influential literary critic, publishing major works on
literaryWriters / criticism and editing significant anthologies of
work, as well20 Years of Literary Debate / as helping to launch
careers of writers like Wang Lili.20The Changing View of Literary
His criticism became publicly renowned in 2006 after heConcepts /
wrote a blog post entitled Status and Future of the Post-80s
Generation, attacking the writing of authors born betweenLiterary
award received 1980-89. The hugely popular and often controversial
young2nd Excellent Achievement Award of writer & blogger Han
Han responded to this, sparking a war of words which became know as
the Han-Bai Controversy.Modern Chinese Literature Bai holds
important positions in the official literary institution, namely
executive vice president of China Modern Literature Institute, and
director of Chinese Literature Theories Association. He is also a
professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Programmed
events The growth and developing direction of Chinese post-1970s
and post-1980s writers under the influence of World literature 17
April, 10.30 11.30, Hampton Room, EC2, LBF Literary Character in
the New Media Age 17 April, 15.00 15.45, Piccadilly Room, EC1, LBF
China Market Focus Programme 2012 23
- Bi Feiyu Recent published titles Bi Feiyu was born in 1964 in
Jiangsu province and lives now in Nanjing. He co-wrote the script
for Zhang YimousMassage / Shanghai Triad (shortlisted for a Golden
Globe) and hasBreast-Feeding Period of a Woman / won the Lu Xun
Prize for Literature twice, and the Mao Dun prize for his latest
novel, whilst two of his novels haveThe Moon Opera / been
translated in English. Though he spent six years as aThree Sisters
/ journalist at Nanjing Daily, he only contributed 6,000 words
during his entire tenure there because, as he claimed,Published
titles in English he had a nasty editor who didnt appreciate his
writing.Three Sisters (2010) This is not an opinion shared by the
international literary community however, as Bi was awarded the Man
AsianLiterary award received Literary prize in 2010 for Three
Sisters.Man Asian Literature Prize in 2010 Bi constructs
well-rounded characters and is often calledMao Dun literature Prize
in 2011 Chinas best male writer on the female psyche, shown by
theLu Xun Prize for Literature 1995, 2004 main character of The
Moon Opera, Xiao Yanqiu. His ability to reproduce colloquial
language in print and his interest inAssociated publisher
commonplace characters means that his work presents aPeoples
Literature Publishing House wealth of truly relevant human detail
to the reader.Telegram Books (UK)Houghton Mifflin (USA) Programmed
eventsAgent A Female Perspective 16 April, 16.00, Whitehall
Room,Andrew Nurnberg Associates EC2, LBF Bi Feiyu The London Book
Fair Author of the Day 17 April Dialogue on the Publishing of
Literature Books 17 April, 16.30, Hampton Room, EC2, LBF24 China
Market Focus Programme 2012
- Choi Yickwai Recent published titles Choi Yickwai (the
pseudonym of Nan Shan) was born in the city of Shishi, Fujian
Province, in 1962; grew up inLAmour in the Past / Sichuan Province;
and gained a PhD in literature from JinanEmotional / Net
University. In the 1980s he migrated to Hong Kong where heAway with
the Wind / is now a literary critic and a contemporary
writer.Associated publisher As well as writing collections of short
stories and publishingWriters Association of Hong Kong collections
of his critical essays, Choi holds important positions in the
literary community. Whilst having the roles of deputy chief editor
of Hong Kong Writers and the literary examiner of the Hong Kong
Arts Development Council, he is the deputy president of the
Federation of Hong Kong Writers and as such had the honour of
addressing the 2011 congress of the Chinese Writers Association.
Programmed events My Road to Literature 18 April, 13.00 14.00,
Chinese Pavilion, Stand U505,EC2, LBF China Market Focus Programme
2012 25
- Chi Zijian Recent published titles Chi Zijian was born in 1965
on the night of the Lantern Festival in Mohe, near the Russian
border. She began writingUnder the Tree / in 1983, when still a
junior in college. Her work tends toSunny over the Cloud / focus on
the lives of everyday people in and around herSnow & Raven /
home province of Heilongjiang. Her compassion for those living in
poverty and desperation is deeply moving to herPublished titles in
English domestic audience and has cemented her reputation as oneA
Flock in the Wilderness (2005) of Chinas best-loved contemporary
writers. Chis novella,The Right Bank of the Argun (2013) Snow and
Raven, brings out her keen understanding of human nature and her
aptitude for satirical humour; it wonLiterary award received the
2010 Dangdai Best Novel of the Year Award. She has also won the Lu
Xun literary award three times and the MaoDangdai Best Novel of the
Year 2010 Dun prize. The English translation of her novel Right
Bank ofMao Dun Literature Prize 2008 the Argun is set to be
published by Harvill Secker in 2013.Lu Xun Literature Prize
1998Associated publisher Programmed eventsPeoples Literature
Publishing HouseBeijing October Arts and Literature Changing China
16 April, 18.45, Asia House,Publishing House 63 New Cavendish
Street, London W1G 7LPForeign Language Press Contemporary China on
the PageHarvill Secker (UK) 18 April, 14.00, Whitehall Room, EC2,
LBF Dialogue on the Publishing of Literature BooksAgent 17 April,
16.30, Hampton Room, EC2, LBFGray Tan, The Grayhawk Agency26 China
Market Focus Programme 2012
- Feng Tang Recent published titles The consummate chronicler of
youth in Beijing, Feng Tang is the author of a series of novels
deeply evocative of growingHow to Become a Freak / up in the
Chinese capital during the 1990s. His main trilogy of
semi-autobiographical novels (Happiness, written whenFeng Tang: 100
Poems / the author was just 18 years old, Everything Grows and
GiveGive me Girl at 18 / Me a Girl at 18) evoke the experience of
youth and growth with lyric accuracy.Oneness / His most recent book
is an abrupt departure from hisLiterary award received earlier
themes. Set in the Tang dynasty, Oneness deploys aFirst prize of
Top 20 Future Masters 2011 classical style harking back to the
traditional racy novels of imperial China, to tell the story of
Buddhist monks and nunsFengshang Weekly Writer of the Year 2010
achieving enlightenment through unorthodox means.Peoples Literature
Young Writers Prize2005 Feng Tang studied medicine at university,
following that with a degree in business, lived in Hong Kong and
has worked forAssociated publisher major businesses in addition to
his writing.Cosmos Books (Hong Kong)New Stars PressHunan Peoples
Publishing House Programmed eventsAgent The New Superpowers 15
April, 16.00, Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, South
Bank Centre, BelvedereLu Jinbo (Mainland China) Road, London SE1
8XXYan Chungou (Hong Kong) Contemporary China on the Page 18 April,
14.00, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF China Market Focus Programme 2012
27
- Guo Xiaolu Published titles in English Guo Xiaolu was born in a
fishing village in the south of China. She studied film at the
Beijing Film Academy and published sixLovers in the Age of
Indifference (2010) books in China before moving to London in 2002.
A ConciseUFO in Her Eyes (2009) Chinese-English Dictionary For
Lovers was shortlisted for the20 Fragments of Ravenous Youth (2008)
Orange Prize for Fiction, and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth was
long listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. TheAssociated
publisher English translation of Village of Stone was shortlisted
for theChatto & Windus (UK) Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
and nominated for theShanghai Literature & Art Publishing IMPAC
Dublin Literary Award.House UFO In Her Eyes, Xiaolus 2009 novel has
been made intoAgent feature film with German and French production,
directed by Xiaolu. Her 2009 film She, a Chinese was awarded the
GoldenJanklow & Nesbit (UK) Leopard award at the Locarno Film
Festival, along with the Montblanc Scriptwriting Award at the
Hamburg Film Festival.Photo: PH Ciompi Programmed events From Page
to Screen 16 April, 13.00, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF28 China Market
Focus Programme 2012
- Han Dong Recent published titles Han Dongs parents were sent
down to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution and took him
with them. After theMe and You / Revolution ended he taught Western
Philosophy at a smallBanished! / college for some years, before
becoming a full-time writer.People Will Talk / Han Dong has been
well-known since the 1980s as onePublished titles in English of
Chinas most important avant-garde poets and is nowA Phone Call from
Dalian: Selected Poems increasingly influential as an essayist,
short story writer(2012) and novelist. He advocates free writing
and opposes theThis Moron is Dead in Shi Cheng: City wholesale
commercialisation of contemporary literature, andStories from China
(2012) although his deceptively simple, subtle style of writing has
acquired a cult following among young Chinese writers andBanished!
(2009) readers, hes still more of a critical than a popular
success.Literary award received A prolific writer, Hans works
include collections of poetry,Chinese Language Media Novel Prize
essays, short stories, novellas, and four full-length novels.in
2003 Banished! won the independent Chinese Language MediaMan Asian
Literary Prize in 2008 longlist Novel Prize in 2003, and was
long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize when
translated.Associated publisherGuangdong Flower City Publishing
HouseComma Press (UK) Programmed eventsZephyr Press (USA) From Page
to Screen 16 April, 13.00; Whitehall Room, EC2, LBFAgent
Contemporary Chinese Poetry 18 April, 10.00, WhitehallForeign
language rights with the author Room, EC2, LBF Shi Cheng: City
Stories from China launch 18 April, 18.30, Conference Centre,
British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Shi Cheng: City
Stories from China Manchester Launch 19 April, 19.00, International
Anthony Burgess Foundation, Engine House, Chorlton Mill, 3
Cambridge Street, Manchester M1 5BY China Market Focus Programme
2012 29
- Jiang Nan Published titles in English Jiang Nan is a
representative writer of youth literature and net literature. He
graduated from the Department of Chemistry,Once Upon a Time in
Shanghai Peking University and received his Masters Degree at
CollegeThe Soul of Leopard of Arts and Sciences, University of
Washington. The circulationThe Dragon Raja II of his first novel
Young Men in This World was 400,000 copies. His other
representative works include Emperor Guangming, Cocoon, Records of
Misty Ancient China, Stories of Ancient China, Shanghai Fortress
and Young Men in This World. His works are mainly concerned with
youth literature and science fiction and fantasy fiction, and the
circulation of many of his novels is over 1,000,000. Programmed
events The Growth and Developing Direction of Chinese Post- 1970s
and Post-1980s Writers Under the Influence of World Literature 17
April, 10.30, Hampton Room, EC2, LBF30 China Market Focus Programme
2012
- Lan Pochou Recent published titles Lan Pochou (China-Taiwan,
1960- ), fiction writer and literary reportage specialist. Born in
Miaoli, Taiwan, Lan beganThe Vine Entwining the Tree publishing
short stories in 1983. After graduating in 1984The Birth of a Young
Writer from the Department of French, Fu Jen Catholic University,In
Search of the Obliterated History he joined the literary reportage
team of the Renjianand People of Taiwan Magazine in early 1987 and
began engaging in research, writing, and investigation on the
history of the people inLiterary award received Taiwan. He has
served as editor and reporter for magazinesJury Award for Fiction
including The South and Renjian, columnist for Liberty Times,China
Times Literary Award politics and economics researcher for The
Independence Morning Post, editor-in-chief for the Chinese version
of the colonial publication A History of Social Movements in Taiwan
(1939) and A History of the People in Taiwan by China Times
Publishing. He was the producer of the T.V.B.S programme
Remembering Taiwan, and the editorial consultant of Biographies. He
has won the Jury Award for Fiction and the China Times Literary
Award. His novel Song of the Veiled Carriage was nominated for the
Hung Hsing-fu Award for Fiction. Programmed events My Road to
Literature 18 April, 13.00, Chinese Pavilion Stand, U505, EC2, LBF
China Market Focus Programme 2012 31
- Li Er Recent published titles Novelist and short story writer
Li Er was born in 1966 in Henan Province. He graduated from the
Shanghai EastColoratura / China Normal University in 1987. His best
known worksCherry on a Pomegranate Tree / include the novels Hua
Qiang (translated as Truth & Variations or Coloratura) and
Cherry on a Pomegranate Tree.Afternoon Poetics / Despite his modest
claim to be a not very prolific author, he has published five story
collections, two novels andPublished titles in English
approximately 50 novellas and short stories, most of themThe
Magician of 1919 (2012) within the last decade. His work appears
regularly in Harvest, Flower City, Peoples Literature and a variety
of otherLiterary award received mainland literary journals. He is
widely respected in Chinese literary circles and has acquired a
passionate fan base ofThe first Chinese Publications and highly
literate, intellectual readers. Known for being bothMedia Award
insightful and amusing in an honest and slightly sardonicThe first
21st Century Ding Jun way, his works have been published in German,
Japanese,Semiannual Literary Prize Korean, and Italian, to name a
few.The ninth Zhuang Zhongwen Literary PrizeAssociated publisher
Programmed eventsJiangsu Art and Literature PressShandong Art and
Literature Press Modern Chinese Masters 16 April, 11.30,
WhitehallPeoples Literature Publishing House Room, EC2, LBFMake Do
Studio Rural China 18 April, 15.30, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF
Pathlight-Enlightenment of Contemporary Chinese Literature 16
April, 14.05 15.50, Piccadilly Room, EC1, LBF32 China Market Focus
Programme 2012
- Li Jingze Recent published titles Li Jingze is a respected
Chinese literary critic. Born in 1964, he graduated from Peking
University and has worked asLittle Spring & Autumn (collected
an editor and critic for many years. He has edited manyessays) /
influential works, and discovered and promoted manyThe Name of
Colour / excellent authors over the years. Since the 1990s he
hasDays of the River / been one of Chinas most active literary
critics, and his criticism enjoys a high reputation both within
literary circlesPublished titles in English and among popular
readers. Li has authored nearly tenThe Great Masque and More
Stories volumes of essays and criticism, and is the recipient ofof
Life in the City, Editor (2008) the Lu Xun literary prize, the
Chinese Media literary prizes Annual Critics Award, and the Fengmu
literary prizes YoungLiterary award received Critics Award. He is
now the Editor-in-Chief of Peoples Literature magazine, modern
Chinas first literary magazineFeng Mu Literary Award Prize for
Young founded 25 days after Chairman Mao declared the
foundingCritics from the Chinese Literature Fund of the Peoples
Republic.The Annual Critic Award of the ChineseLiterature AwardsThe
Literary Criticism Award of the Lu Xun Programmed eventsLiterature
Award The Art of Publishing Literary MagazinesAssociated publisher
17 April, 17.00, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBFNew Star Press
Pathlight-Enlightenment of Contemporary ChineseForeign Language
Press (English) Literature 16 April, 14.05 15.50, Piccadilly Room,
EC1, LBF China Market Focus Programme 2012 33
- Liu Cixin Recent published titles Liu Cixin, an engineer by
trade, began writing science fiction in the early 1990s. Over the
past decade he hasThree Body / won multiple awards and has become
Chinas most popularDark Forest / domestic science fiction author.
His recent novels have ledDead End / to increased mainstream
attention for the genre. The second volume of his Three Body
trilogy, The Dark Forest, made aLiterary award received number of
year-end best-of lists in 2008, and his work hasGalaxy Award for
Science-Fiction Writing been critiqued in literary journals such as
Book City andWorld Chinese Science Fiction Fiction
World.Associations Nebula Award, 2010 A sense of the importance of
the beauty of science thatAssociated publisher permeates Lius
fiction is tempered with scepticism about the ability of
scientists, world leaders and the general public toChongqing Press
handle technological developments responsibly. AlongsideSichuan
Science and Technology Press this many of his stories are populated
by ordinary characters drawn from contemporary Chinese society. His
inventive, fast- paced storytelling, imaginative, well-grounded
science and memorable characters made the third volume of his
trilogy one of Chinas most anticipated science fiction novels.
Programmed events Science Fiction in China 17 April, 11.00,
Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF34 China Market Focus Programme 2012
- Liu Xinglong Recent published titles When Liu Xinglongs
three-volume novel At the Door of Holy Heaven was published, it was
widely thought that, at overAwful / one million words, it was far
too long to catch readers eyes,Extreme Love with No Emotion / let
alone hold their attention. However against all odds it found its
way onto the 2005 bestsellers list in China; in AprilAt the Door of
Holy Heaven / 2006 the US Chinese Writers Association recommended
it to the American press and international sinology circles;
andLiterary award received in May 2006 it was awarded the Novel
Prize by the ChineseChinese Fiction Institution Novel Prize Fiction
Institution.2006Mao Dun Literature Award Liu began to publish his
works in 1984 and is now Vice Chairman of Wuhan Federation of
Literary and Art, ViceLu Xun literature Award Chairman of Writers
Association of Hubei Province, andAssociated publisher
Editor-in-Chief of the literature magazine Fragrant Grass. He
believes that there is room for sincerity and goodness inThe
Writers Publishing House everyones heart, which is the foundation
of human beingChina Workers Publishing House and of future
generations, and that the purpose of a novel isPeoples Literature
Publishing House to show peoples elegance and nobleness. Programmed
events Pathlight-Enlightenment of Contemporary Chinese Literature
16 April, 14.05 15.50, Piccadilly Room, EC1, LBF Literary Character
in the New Media Age 17 April, 15.00 15.45, Piccadilly Room, EC1
China Market Focus Programme 2012 35
- Liu Zhenyun Recent published titles Born in 1958 in Yanjin
County, Henan Province, Liu Zhenyun started writing in 1982, after
serving five yearsMy Name is Liu Yuejin / in the Peoples Liberation
Army in Gansu province andA Word is Worth a Thousand Words /
studying four years of literature at Peking University. By the
early 1990s, he had established a reputation for hisReminiscing1942
/ 1942 sharp observations of city life and the everyday concerns of
ordinary folk. Many Chinese writers seek to make sensePublished
titles in English of Chinas newly urbanized culture, but Liu seems
to haveThe Corridors of Power his finger more firmly on the pulse
of Chinas cities. His coldCell Phone humour, broad familiarity with
the many facets of urban society, and modern sensibilities have
made him a favouriteLiterary award received among Chinese
readers.Mao Dun Literature Award 2011Dangdai Literary Prize 2007
& 2009 Programmed eventsAssociated publisher
Pathlight-Enlightenment of Contemporary ChineseChangjiang
Literature and Art Press Literature 16 April, 14.05 15.50,
Piccadilly Room,Chinese Literature Press EC1, LBFMerwinAsia (USA)
New Perspectives in Chinese and British LiteraturePeople Literature
Publishing House 17 April, 14.00, Hampton Room, EC2, LBF Urban
Landscapes 18 April, 11.30, Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF36 China Market
Focus Programme 2012
- Mo Yan Recent published titles Mo Yan is one of the great
novelistic masters of modern Chinese literature with a long list of
ambitious books to hisLife and Death are Wearing Me Out / name. His
writing is powerful, visual, and broad, dipping into history,
fantasy and absurdity to tell stories of China and itsRepublic of
Wine / people. Originally counted a part of the "root-seeking"
literaryBig Breasts and Wide Hips / movement of the 1980s it
quickly became clear that he had aFrog / style and voice that was
distinctly his own. Displaying the marks of a global literary
heritage touches of Faulkner, Marquez,Published titles in English
and a gusto for experimentation he is often regarded asRed Sorghum
(1994) the Chinese writer with the most potential to appeal to
anBig Breasts and Wide Hips (2005) international audience, and is
perhaps the one most translated. Magical realism figures largely in
Mo Yans plots and even hisLiterary award received more
straightforward fiction has an unearthly air to it, the result of
his dense, metaphor-rich language. Over time his writing hasMao Dun
Literature Award shifted to more consciously-crafted "social issue"
novels: hisFukuoka Asian Culture Grand Prize (Japan) latest, Frog,
tackles Chinas one-child policy.Nonino International Literary Award
(Italy)Newman Prize for Chinese Literature (USA) Programmed
eventsAssociated publisherShanghai Art and Literature Publishing
Pathlight-Enlightenment of Contemporary ChineseHouse Literature 16
April, 14.05 15.50, Piccadilly Room, EC1, LBFThe Writers Publishing
House New Perspectives in Chinese and British LiteratureMethuen
(UK) 17 April, 14.00, Hampton Room, EC2, LBF Publishing and
Literature Dialogue 18 April, 11.00, ChinaAgent Pavilion, Stand
U505, EC2, LBFPeony Literary Agency Rural China 18 April, 15.30,
Whitehall Room, EC2, LBF An evening with Mo Yan 19 April, 19.00,
Khalili Lecture Theatre (KLT), Lower Ground Floor, School of
Oriental & African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
Opening Up the East 22 April, 15.00, Stratford upon Avon Literary
Festival, Shakespeare Centre, Henley Street, Stratford CV37 6QW
China Market Focus Programme 2012 37
- Qiu Huadong Recent published titles Born in Changji, Xinjiang
province in 1969, Qiu Hudong began writing when he was 16 years
old, and publishedFly Eyes / his first collection of novellas at
18. He studied Chinese literature at Wuhan University and moved to
Beijing in 1992Literary award received after graduating to work as
the cultural affairs reporter forZhuang Zhong Literature Award the
business journal China Commercial Times. He is now theShanghai
Literature Fiction Award assistant to the chief-editor of Peoples
Literature Magazine, and the editorial director of Pathlight a
newly launchedAssociated publisher English-language publication of
new Chinese writing.People Literature Publishing HouseGuangxi
Normal University Press Qiu Huadong capitalizes upon his experience
as a Beijing journalist with extensive social networks to write
contemporary fiction with a strong ethnographic dimension. He has
published over twenty works, including ten novels, collections of
short stories, novellas, poetry and essays, as well as an internet
novella. His works have been translated into French, German, Korean
and Japanese. Programmed events Pathlight-Enlightenment of
Contemporary Chinese Literature 16 April, 14.05 15.50, Piccadilly
Room, EC1, LBF38 China Market Focus Programme 2012
- Sheng Keyi Recent published titles Sheng Keyi is one of Chinas
most prominent female writers. She has fallen between the early
waves of feminist ChineseNorthern Girl / authors and the youngest
crop of women writers. ThisTime Girl / has benefitted her as she is
free to build on the modes ofWho Invaded Me / fiction pioneered by
older writers but with the advantage of experience and maturity
over many younger writers.Published titles in English Originally
from Hunan province but now living in GuangdongNorthern Girls
(2012) she is often grouped with the female writers from that
region writing on modern China. However her work focusesLiterary
award received on the ad hoc creation of massive new metropolises
andChinese Literature Media Prize 2003 the formation of ne