Rana Mitter, includes The Woman Who Lost China in his 6th July Daily Telegraph ten book literary tour of the country, alongside Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum, Lu Xun’s KongYiji and Mao Dun’s Midnight. “The Woman Who Lost China published this year, vividly portrays Nanjing’s civil war of 1949, depicting the fate of a Chinese family split as the city falls to the communists. Reading about Nanjing’s traumas in a city now marked by universities and technology is a reminder that under the surface of the authoritarian China of today is an extremely violent past still sitting within living memory.” Rana Mitter is the author of China’s War with Japan 1937-1945: the Struggle for Survival (Allen and Lane)
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:01:31 +0000