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Granta 169: China

Autumn 2024

At a time when China has become a unifying spectre of menace for Western governments, this issue of Granta seeks to bring the country’s literary culture into focus.

Featuring fiction by Yu Hua, Zou Jingzhi, Yan Lianke, Jianan Qian, Shuang Xuetao, Mo Yan, Zhang Yueran, Ban Yu, Yang Zhihan and Wang Zhanhei.

Essays by Xiao Hai and Han Zhang, as well as a conversation between Wu Qi and Granta.

Photography from Feng Li, Haohui Liu and collaborators Li Jie and Zhang Jungang.

And poetry from Huang Fan, Lan Lan, Hu Xudong and Zheng Xiaoqiong.

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