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Book Review: “Strange Beasts of China” — An Exuberant Chinese Fantasy

The volume’s spirited imagination is strong enough to compensate for flaws in its translation.

By: Maxwell Olin Massa Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Chinese, Jeremy Tiang, Melville House, Strange Beasts of China, translation, Yan Ge

Fuse Book Review: “The Book of Beginnings” — Vive les indifférences!

This study is an attempt to “enter” a foreign way of thought and to study the “possibilities” and, by extension, “potential mindsets” of the human mind.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Chinese, François Jullien, french, Greek, Hebrew, The Book of Beginnings, theory, translation

Fuse Book Commentary: Found in Translation — Out in the ‘Burbs

Every writer fantasizes about passionate readers. These were as passionate as they come.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, World Books Tagged: Chinese, Culture Vulture, Heda Kovaly, memoir, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968

Book Review: Celebrating “The Flowers of War”

A strange mix of characters who all have complicated pasts gives rise to a novel that blossoms — exactly as a flower does — into a complex drama that includes several points of view and a wide range of emotions.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Chinese, Christian Bale, Geling Yan, Other Press, Rape of Nanking, The Flowers of War, translation

Opera Review: ‘Madame White Snake’

Reviewed By Caldwell Titcomb It has been many years since a major new opera was mounted here. But Opera Boston has done just that with its recent world premiere of “Madame White Snake” at the Cutler Majestic Theatre. This was the most demanding and expensive undertaking in the company’s history.

By: Caldwell Titcomb Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: Beijing Music Festival, Caldwell-Titcomb, Chinese, Cutler Majestic Theatre, Madame White Snake, Opera Boston, Robert Woodruf, Zhou Long

Book Review: China’s Surreal Corruption

A new novel by a Chinese dissident provides a comically stinging vision of his homeland.

By: Tess Lewis Filed Under: Books, Review, World Books Tagged: Chinese, fiction-in-translation, Ma-Jian, Tess Lewis, The-Noodle-Maker

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