Foreign memoirs of China: An interview with Amy Sommers – Literature

www.chinatravel.net — Amy Sommers is a Partner in the Shanghai office of law firm Squire Sanders, and a frequent speaker on various China-related topics.

She's appearing at the Shanghai Literary Festival this weekend (Sunday 7 March, 2pm), where she'll be giving a talk entitled China's Literary Legacy: Forgotten Memoirs; Outsiders Looking In.

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Foreign memoirs of China: An interview with Amy Sommers

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therealadm 1 year 48 weeks ago

I wonder if Amy has a podcast we can listen to?

ChinaTravel.net 1 year 48 weeks ago

Well, local city-living mag City Weekend are liveblogging every event from the Shanghai Lit Fest. You can read their coverage of Amy's talk here: http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/articles/blogs-shanghai/silf/2010... They also promise to have podcasts of every event up on their site soon.

therealadm 1 year 48 weeks ago

Thanks. I'm on the case!

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