Coming in Sunday's Sun: China
When Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, many hoped that the breadth of Chinese writing would finally be noticed in the West. It seems that at last it has. In Arts & Life, we'll look at several recommendations for China watchers.
Among them: Beijing Coma by Ma Jian, a compelling, haunting look at the budding democracy movement and the subsequent oppression of its members. And Confessions: An Innocent Life in Communist China by Kang Zhengguo, a harrowing memoir about arrest, banishment and hard labor amid the Cultural Revolution.
