Apologies for the late announcement, but there might be in Shanghai today a good opportunity to meet an upcoming writer, whose work is, and that is a good sign, originally written in English.
Zhang Lijia will be giving a talk at Figaro café at 7:15 pm on Wednesday June 11 about her recently published memoir Socialism is Great – her decade-long experience of working at a missile factory in Nanjing in the 80's, and her remarkable journey from a factory worker to international journalist. Hope you can come along.
Address: Figaro Café, No.160, Xingye Lu, Shanghai, 200020
No RSVP or entrance fee is required.
Her website is here and an interview at the China Beat here. From the China Beat:
Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America, queuing every month to give evidence to the "period police" that she wasn't pregnant. In the oppressive routine of guarded compound and political meetings, Zhang's disillusionment with "The Glorious Cause" drove her to study English, which strengthened her intellectual independence – from bright, western style clothes to organizing the largest demonstration by Nanjing workers in support of Tiananmen Square Protest in 1989. By narrating the changes in her own life, Zhang chronicles the momentous shift in China's economic policy: her factory, still an ICMB manufacturer, won the bid to cast a giant bronze Buddha as the country went crazy for profit. Written in English, "Socialism Is Great!" is a testament to Zhang's personal triumphs over the controlled existence that was supposed to be her destiny.
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