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On the Revolutions: Scott Lash vs Ou Ning
Chutzpah Published 2012-03-09 04:26Chutzpah Magazine issue # 6 Launching EventOn the Revolutions: Scott Lash vs Ou NingTime: 12:00 pm-13:30 pm, Saturday, March17, 2012Venue: Ullens Center for ContemporaryArt, 798 Art District, BeijingFree entry. Conversation in English andChinese with translation. Chutzpah Magazine is proud to invite Professor Scott Lash, the director of theCenter for Culture Studies in Goldsmiths College, Universi...
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Julia Lovell on Pathlight and Chutzpah
Chutzpah Published 2012-02-23 02:32In the march issue of Prospect, a monthly British magazine with a circulation of more than 30,000 copies, Julia Lovell, a lecturer in modern Chinese history and literature at the University of London and the author of “The Opium War”, writes about the Chinese literary scene which "became even more diverse". In an article titled "The key to China"(see below), she points out that overwhelmed anglop...
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Peregrine 5th Issue now online
Chutzpah Published 2012-03-17 03:52The 5th Issue of Peregrine, an English Companion to Chutzpah Magazine, is now online. Enjoy reading!Yan Ge, Dad’s Not Dead, Translated by Nicky Harmanhttp://en.chutzpahmagazine.com.cn/EnMagazineTextDetails.aspx?id=74Ha Jin, A Pension Planhttp://en.chutzpahmagazine.com.cn/EnMagazineTextDetails.aspx?id=75Guo Xiaolu, A Soul in Sakhalinhttp://en.chutzpahmagazine.com.cn/EnMagazineTextDetails.aspx?id=76...
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A Yi: The Curse
Chutzpah Published 2011-11-09 15:30A chicken can disappear as easily as an insect.The owner of this particular missing chicken, Zhong Yonglian, had deduced thather neighbour Wu Haiying was responsible for the disappearance. There were twopieces of incriminating evidence: first, a trail of claw-prints ending in Wu’s vegetable garden;second, her house smelled of stew. Wu Haiying was not a woman you wanted to geton the wrong side of...
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Li Rui: The Annals of Dijiahe
Chutzpah Published 2011-11-09 15:25Dijiahe is the village I was sent to in that year.It was a recent telephone call that suddenly calledforth the impulse to record something of Dijiahe. The call came from Run Yuezi,my landlord during my time in the countryside, who called to tell me that hisgranddaughter Yingying was about to get married. He added in passing that thenew village buildings had been completed and that his two sons, P...
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Gu Qian: Dreamworlds
Chutzpah Published 2011-11-09 15:19In the afternoon, heavy rainclouds began to fillthe sky. Zhou Ji lay down on the bed, switched on thereading lamp and picked up a book. Cloudy days like this one made him feeldowncast and unable to muster the energy to do anything. After reading for awhile he was overcome by tiredness, so he switched off the light and driftedoff to sleep. He had not expected his nap to be so delicious; it...
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Ou Ning: Agrarian Utopia - An Artistic Experiment in Chiang Mai
Chutzpah Published 2011-11-09 15:12Agrarian Utopia: An Artistic Experiment in Chiang MaiKamin Lertchaiprasert was his full name in Thai. That family name was far too long for me to remember, so I just called him by his first name. With a long ponytail and goatee, black shirt, shorts, and skin that had been exposed to the semi-tropical sunshine, he looked at 46 much like some fellow villagers I remembered from when I was little – ...
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Mang Ke: A Year Has Only Sixty Days ( Selections )
Chutzpah Published 2011-11-04 10:581The rattle of wind-blown bones went on all night At dawn it finally ceased While hungry birds pecked at the tin roof A cuckoo’s cry proves there is stillness here People go on living their livesLiving things are still filled with life force Why do the dead keep sighing after death?What I’d rather not remember keeps coming to mind Forgotten things are the hardest to forget Do the dead realize they...
