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The subplot : what China is reading and why it matters

The subplot : what China is reading and why it matters

Book 2022

"What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics? THE SUBPLOT takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by "rotten girls," swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hu...