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The People's Republic of Desire – Literature

www.popmatters.com — Desire: a materialistic hunger, a sexual thirst, a superficial craving for beauty, status, youth. Or, a soul-deep longing for a lost wholeness; a yearning to fall in love, to be free, to belong. This is the palette of lust with which Annie Wang paints modern China's portrait in The People's Republic of Desire.

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Xinjiang and the Cultural Revolution: Wang Gang's "English" – Literature

www.danwei.org — First published in 2004, English (英格力士) by Wang Gang (王刚) has become an unexpected bestseller in China and has won numerous awards including the 2005 "Best Novel of the Year" from the prestigious People's Literature Publishing House. Now it has been translated and released in English to allow even more readers to experience life in Xinjiang during the Cultural Revolution.