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Underground & Undercover: Literary Reportage

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Literary reporters bear witness to the effect of modernization – from massive internal migration and the commercialization of culture to the ravages of corruption and environmental degradation – with novelist/essayist Yu Hua (China In Ten Words); author and media critic Zha Jianying (Tide Players); Siddhartha Deb, who survived a stint as a “cybercoolie” at a call center in Mumbai to write The Beautiful and the Damned; and China’s pioneering cyber novelist-turned-investigative journalist Murong Xuecun (best-selling novel, Leave Me Alone: A Novel of Chengdu), who reported on a mafia-style “direct-selling” pyramid scam in Jiangxi that exposed the inequities of China’s capitalistic development. Moderated by Orville Schell, Director of Asia Society’s Center for U.S-China Relations.

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Part of Asia Society's Inaugural Asian Arts and Ideas Forum - The Chindia Dialogues (November 3 - 6)

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The Chindia Dialogues are co-sponsored by the Center for U.S.-China Relations, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and the India China Institute at the New School University in New York. Major support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Aashish and Dinny Devitre, Dr. Indu & Mridul Pathak, The Armand G. Erpf Fund, Ellen Bayard Weedon Foundation, Arthur Loeb Foundation, China Energy Fund Committee, and other generous Asia Society supporters.

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Fri 04 Nov 2011
12:30 - 2 p.m.
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20111104T123000 20111104T140000 America/New_York Asia Society: Underground & Undercover: Literary Reportage What happens when literary journalists go undercover in China and India?

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