As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.This is the generation that will change China. The youth, over 320 million of them in their teens and twenties, more than the population of the USA. Born after Mao, with no memory of Tiananmen, they are destined to transform both their nation and the world.These millennials, offspring of the one-child policy, face fierce competition to succeed. Pressure starts young, and their road isn't easy. Their stories are also l...

Con profondità letteraria e acume giornalistico, Lanterne in volo racconta la storia di sei giovani nati tra il 1985 e il 1990, parte della generazione che cambierà la Cina e il mondo, cui è impossibile non affezionarsi. Lucifer è un musicista ribelle che ondeggia tra il punk e il pop pur di diventare famoso; Mia, fashionista, classe 1990, a 17 anni si tatua un fucile AK-47 sul braccio; Dahai è figlio di un militare e sfoga la sua curiosità e la sua insoddisfazione online; Fred è figlia di...

What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, ‘reverse migrating’ from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China — and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery.In 2020, Alec Ash left behind his old life as a journalist in buzzy Beijing, and moved to Dali, a rural valley in China’s Yunnan province, centred around a great lake shaped like an ear and overlo...

Anyone who has lived in China has stories to tell. For foreigners and Chinese alike, this is a land that transforms itself every day, with something to write about on every corner. Collected in this anthology are 33 contributions, a mix of narrative non-fiction, fiction and poetry, from the writers' colony the Anthill (theanthill.org). Together, they offer glimpses into this quicksilver country-by turns funny, touching and bizarre. Whether we stay or leave, the stories remain.

El problema de fer declaracions categòriques sobre la Xina és que immediatament es pot pensar un exemple que suggereixi el contrari. "Generalitzar és d'idiotes", va dir William Blake. Però un conjunt de punts forma una imatge, i un grapat de notes poden fer una melodia.Al món, gairebé una de cada cinc persones és xinesa, i a la Xina hi ha tres-cents vint milions de joves entre l'adolescència i els trenta anys, més que la població total dels Estats Units. Nascuts des...

What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, ‘reverse migrating’ from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China ? and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery.In 2020, Alec Ash left behind his old life as a journalist in buzzy Beijing, and moved to Dali, a rural valley in China’s Yunnan province, centred around a great lake shaped like an ear and overlooked by the Cang ...