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Review: Beijing Coma

by Jessica Marsden on August 31, 2009

When the novel Beijing Coma by the Chinese writer Ma Jian came out last year, I had little interest in reading it. Something about the structure of the novel — which is narrated by a man in a coma who is able to perceive, though unable to respond, to what is going on around him [...]

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Links roundup: Urumqi edition

by Jessica Marsden on July 7, 2009

As information trickles out about the protests and violence in Xinjiang over the weekend, I have mixed feelings about being outside of China for what appears to be a very significant series of events. On the one hand, I wish I knew what (if anything) was happening to the Uighurs who live in my neighborhood, [...]

Tagged as: Internet, links, politics, Urumqi, Xinjiang

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