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Traces: China 1999–2010
Ian Teh
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‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’
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‘I tried to work out how many elements I would have plugged if I retired at sixty, and soon I was fatigued before a simple subtraction.’
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‘An enormous black form rose from the water. Uncle Feng told me in a low voice to run fast.’
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‘At a time when China has become a unifying specter of menace for Western governments, this issue of Granta brings the country’s literary culture into focus.’
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‘My father has always said that he was born twice.’
