Current
Events
Twin-Sun River: Stage
Reading
Produced by National Academy of Television Arts
& Sciences New York
Monday 24-Mar-08 5:30
PM --8:30 PM
The screenplay
is about an American Korean War POW who chose to go to China
at the time of armistice (1953-54).
(click
for more information)
A Talk on Adapting Novels to Screenplays is scheduled by the Academy:
From
Novel to Screenplay: Challenges and Pitfalls
Merging Three Cultures
(Chinese, Japanese, Western)
Wednesday 19-Mar-08 6:00PM--8:00PM
(click for more information)
Recent Books
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories
Flash Fiction from Contemporary China: An Anthology
“Traditional, experimental, and avant-garde,
The Pearl Jacket
and Other Stories will …breathe new
energy into modern Chinese
literature, leaving the literary and societal stagnation of the
Cultural Revolution behind as a distant memory.”
(San Francisco: Stone Bridge Press, 2008)
Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories 
“Qi’s
stories of post-Cultural Revolution China gloriously join
the
lineage of Chekhov. With unadorned prose
and utmost
compassion...
Red Guard Fantasies offers
glimpses of How to
Be Chinese now that
instructions from the Little Red Book no
longer
apply”
(San Francisco: Long River Press, 2007)
When the Purple Mountain Burns: A Novel
“…an unprecedented first novel by a
native son of Nanking,
set during the
first six days after the fall of the city to the
Japanese
imperial army in December of 1937… Like no other
before,
Shouhua Qi's unique voice profoundly captures the
essence
of his hometown and the struggles faced by
Generations
of Chinese as they exorcise the demons of
popular
memory.”
(San Francisco: Long River Press,
2005)
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