Review of China in Ten Words

(abandoned) Yu Hua (余华)
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A 3/5 means: Solid. Above the bar. Good parts greatly outweigh any shortcomings. I'm glad to have read it once.

Chinese title: 十个词汇里的中国. Chris Stasse, Alexi C., and I are reading and responding to this as part of a Chinese reading group. Each chapter is an essay prompted by a single two-character Chinese word. Below are the ones I've read so far; I'll definitely end up blogging more about this book.

  • 人民 People
  • 领袖 Leader (finished 2020-09-21)
  • 阅读 Reading (read 2020-10-10)
  • 7 more chapters... [edit: the middle chapters turned into a slog, and we gave up.]

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