Articles By Lorenzo Andolfatto
The soft interrogations of ‘bei hecha’ (被喝茶)
Charges can and will be invented, when push comes to shove.
Tour of Babel: qualunquismo
“I am the one who does not believe in anything or anyone any more. I am the common man.”
Certain resemblances between Ba Jin’s ‘Jia’ and ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’
While Jia offered a unique cross section of a crucial turning point in Chinese history, the novel was also laced with such sappiness as to make it all but impossible to read for a modern reader weaned on postmodern irony and detachment.
