From 2006 to 2010, I photographed the coal industry in China and its impact on the western hinterlands of the country. One body of work, Traces I, was a series of landscapes, often devoid of people, that beneath their neutral surfaces harboured highly politicised histories and revealed physical …
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From 2006 to 2010, I photographed the coal industry in China and its impact on the...
‘The pictures I take are fly-on-the-wall and open to interpretation.’
‘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.’
Fiction by A. Jiang.
‘An enormous black form rose from the water. Uncle Feng told me in a low voice to run fast.’
Fiction by Can Xue, translated by Annelise Finegan.
‘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.’
The editor introduces the issue.
‘‘Only the spirit of the earth knows where the soul has gone,’ Bou said of his lost wife, ‘or where the bodies are buried’.’
