Reading
Jan-Philipp Sendker

Echoes of the Cultural Revolution

Thu, 18.08.2016
7:00 PM Edinburgh Futures Institute (EIBF)

Jan-Philipp Sendker and Peter Ho Davies

The legacies of Mao and Confucius infect two provocative novels linking Chinese and American experiences. In The Fortunes, Peter Ho Davies recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and cleverly depicts the immigrant family experience. Jan-Philipp Sendker’s Dragon Games tells the story of an American journalist and his Chinese girlfriend as they face a crisis which takes them back to her home village.