Yiyun Li
Articles by Yiyun Li
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Books
My afternoons with Montaigne
- 29 December 2010
When the novelist Yiyun Li rationed her use of the internet, she found herself ignoring too many emails, but mesmerised by another world that opened up.
Asia
Tiananmen Square
- 12 March 2009
Many Chinese no longer wish to remember the day when Communist tanks burst in to Tiananmen Square and thousands of democracy campaigners were killed. But, says the award-winning novelist Yiyun Li, to ignore the events of 4 June is to turn away from the truths and lessons of history
Asia
Party lines
- 31 July 2008
The Chinese Writers' Association employs 5,196 of the country's most popular and influential authors. In return, it expects them to produce poems, novels - and state propaganda











