Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Banned Chinese-born author Geling Yan publishes again in Chinese - outside China

 June 27, 2023, Berlin, Germany

Chinese-born author Geling Yan 嚴歌苓 has suffered under an informal ban on her work by the Chinese government since March 2020, when she wrote and promulgated an essay criticizing the Chinese government’s initial actions after the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic:

 

English

https://paper-republic.org/pubs/read/hide-hide-hide/

Chinese

https://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/145708

 

Her credit from a major motion picture by Zhang Yimou, One Second, the leitmotiv of which was based on her novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi, was even ordered removed by the Chinese government:

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/movies/zhang-yimou-movie.html

https://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/188075

 

Chinese Independent PEN stood in solidarity with her:

 

https://www.chinesepen.org/english/she-is-not-alone-a-joint-statement#more-8754

 

…and awarded her its “Freedom Prize for Writing” for 2022:

 

https://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/188421

https://www.chinesepen.org/blog/archives/188465

 

Since her ban, Ms. Yan has continued to write and create, but she has had no outlet for her publication or film projects in China.  As a result, she and her husband, Lawrence A. Walker 王樂仁,have set up a publishing and film production company in Berlin, Germany, where they reside:  New Song Media GmbH.

 

www.newsongmedia.de

 

The company’s mission is stated here:

 

https://www.newsongmedia.de/about

 

The company has just published Ms. Yan’s first novel in Chinese outside Greater China:  Milati 拉帝。It is now available as a print book and an e-book on online booksellers’ websites and will soon be available in Chinese-language bookstores.

 

 

 

Amazon.com:

https://www.amazon.com/%E7%B1%B3%E6%8B%89%E8%92%82-Milati-Chinese-Geling-Yan/dp/3910769012?ref_=ast_author_dp

 

Amazon Kindle:

https://www.amazon.com/Milati-Traditional-Chinese-Geling-Yan-ebook/dp/B0C8GYT988?ref_=ast_author_dp

 

Barnes and Noble

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/milati-geling-yan/1143650968?ean=9783910769014

 

Multiple print and e-book booksellers:

https://books2read.com/u/b5WD81

 

The book, also available in a deluxe collectors’ edition co-published with World Chinese Weekly Publishing Company Inc.(世界华人周刊出版集团) will be launched at an event in Vancouver, B.C., Canada on July 9, also including the launch of works by the poet Yang Lian 楊煉 and his wife, the novelist and painter Yoyo 友友:

 

The event will be held in Chinese, so the information about it is mostly in Chinese:

 

严歌苓、杨炼、友友温哥华首场读者见面会

时间:202379日下午13:30--17:45

地点:Norman Rothstein Theater.

地址:950 West 41st  Avenue, Vancouver BCCanada V5Z 2N7

门票:50加元

订票电话:604-762-257213910272918(可加此微信或支付宝账号付款)

CIBC bank e-transfer1065780000@qq.com

多一点信息在这里

https://www.meipian.cn/4svxkldu?share_depth=2&s_uid=465831446&share_to=group_singlemessage&first_share_to=group_singlemessage&first_share_uid=109601341

 

Ms. Yan will also have a solo event at the Central Library of the Vancouver Public Library on 13 July:

 

Public speaking event with Yan Geling at Vancouver Public Library, Central Library,

350 West Georgia St., Vancouver V6B 6B1

Thursday, 13 Julyfrom 5 to 6:30 pm.

​More information here

https://vpl.bibliocommons.com/events/648b9520023dc43e0086a9cb

 

We welcome media inquiries, coverage, attendance, and questions. 

Contact person:  Lawrence A. Walker

info@newsongmedia.de

No comments:

Post a Comment

Featured Post

Vida Designs - A New Place to Get My Photographs

If you like fine photography and fashion, you can now get them both in one place. Voices - Vida now hosts an online shop of custom-designed...