MCLC: Sheng Keyi event

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Sheng Keyi event
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Source: Asia Society:
http://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/creative-women-contemporary-china-sh
eng-keyi

Creative Women in Contemporary China: Sheng Keyi
A conversation with one of China's leading new novelists
Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 6:30 pm
Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021

A conversation between fiction writer Sheng Keyi and Susan Jakes, Senior
Fellow, Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society and the Editor of
ChinaFile.com.

Born in Yiyang, Hunan in the 1970s, Sheng Keyi is considered one of
China's leading younger generation authors. Sheng's first full-length
novel, Northern Girls ‹ published in China in 2004 and forthcoming in an
English translation in 2012 ‹ drew on her own harrowing experience as a
female job-seeking "migrant" to the southern economic boomtown of Shenzhen
in the early 1990s. Sheng began to write full time in 2001 and has since
won several prestigious national awards, including the Most Promising New
Talent Award, the Guangdong New Talent Award, the New Works Award, and the
Lu Xun Literature Prize.

Sheng's published work includes three full-length novels, Death Fugue,
Northern Girls andHouse on Fire, and several novellas and short-story
collections, A Getting Warm Campaign, At the Farewell Ceremony, Book of
Keyi, and A World That Lacks Experience. Sheng, who has been hailed as one
of China's boldest and socially-engaged novelists, also stands out, in the
words of one critic, as "a ferocious experimenter with style and voice"
whose work "covers a wide range of emotional and social territory."

Susan Jakes is a Senior Fellow with Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China
Relations and the Editor of ChinaFile.com, a new online magazine about
China. From 2000-2007 she reported for Time Magazine from Hong Kong and
Beijing and was a frequent commentator on Chinese affairs for radio and
television. She is the recipient of the Society of Publishers in Asia's
Young Journalist of the Year Award for her reporting on Chinese youth
culture. In 2003 she broke the story of the government cover-up of the
SARS outbreak in Beijing, for which she received the Henry Luce Public
Service Award.

Creative Women in Contemporary China is a series of conversations with
some of China's most innovative and creative women. The next program
features activist Wu Qing (12/12/12).

This program is part of Asia Society's year-long programmatic focus on
China, titled China Close Up
<http://asiasociety.org/new-york/year-china-events-asia-society>. Through
major exhibitions and programming in arts and culture, policy, and
business, Asia Society explores China's vibrant past and present as a
window onto its exciting future.

Co-sponsored by The Bookworm International Literary Festival (BLF)
<http://bookwormfestival.com/>