literary

www.torontolife.com — A tale of death threats, tarnished reputations and literary jealousy. This expose on the plagiarism charges against "Gold Mountain Blues" authoress Ling Zhang is an EXTREMELY engrossing read for anyone interested in Chinese literature and/or the process of writing and publishing.

fora.tv — This is a slightly older talk by Peter Hessler (author of River Town and Oracle Bones), but a great listen full of quite even-handed insight and some great Q&A.

eyeseast.blogspot.com — A good review of China Wakes a decade on is available at Chris' great Eyes East blog. Chris asks the quintessential question - is this novel still relevant? A decade ago one of the book's two authors had the answer...