This season on Underreported with Nicholas Lemann, we’re focusing on our new book, The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters, by journalist and critic Megan Walsh. Our three-part series explores not only the content of the book, but why it is worth our time and attention.
The Stories Chinese Fiction Reveals
A Conversation with Megan Walsh
This is the last of our three-part series on the book The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters.
In The Subplot, journalist and critic Megan Walsh takes her readers on a journey through the works of Chinese fiction. Works that are otherwise difficult for the rest of the world to access. Today, she joins us to share what she found out, and how she knew there was a bigger story to tell about fiction writing in China.
This is episode three of a three-part series
Transcript
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In The Subplot, journalist and critic Megan Walsh takes the reader on a lively journey through the last two decades of China’s literary landscape, illustrating the country’s complex relationship between art and politics. She also dispels assumptions Westerners make about censorship, and opens up a view of Chinese society that you don’t see through conventional news coverage.
“A sharp, revealing portrait of contemporary China…. Elegantly written and fascinating.” —Adam Foulds, author of The Quickening Maze
episode credits
Produced by Tracey Madigan
Associate producer Liann Herder
Audio engineer John Weppler
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