{"id":68106,"date":"2016-11-14T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68106"},"modified":"2016-11-13T01:23:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-13T05:23:05","slug":"cultural-revolution-to-tiananmen-square-madeleine-thien-jiayang-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=68106","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Revolution to Tiananmen Square: Madeleine Thien &amp; Jiayang Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, November 14  07pm to 09pm<br \/>\nAsian American Writers&#8217; Workshop<br \/>\n112 W 27th St, New York, New York 10001<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/china.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[68106]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/china.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t miss this rare New York appearance by novelist Madeleine Thien, whose ambitious novel of contemporary Chinese history&#8211;Do Not Say We Have Nothing (W.W. Norton 2016)&#8211;is a finalist for this year\u2019s Man Booker Prize and the Governor General\u2019s Literary Award, Canada\u2019s Highest Literary Prize. An epic, magisterial story, the ambitious, sweeping novel engages with two of the most violent moments in recent Chinese history: the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square protests. She\u2019ll discuss the book with New Yorker staff writer Jiayang Fan, who complimented Thien\u2019s \u201cmastery\u201d in writing a \u201cpowerfully expansive\u201d novel spanning \u201cseven decades and three generations\u201d of Chinese history in a rave review in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Free and Open to the public! RSVP at:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/from-the-cultural-revolution-to-tiananmen-square-madeleine-thien-jiayang-fan-tickets-28615548877\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, November 14 07pm to 09pm Asian American Writers&#8217; Workshop 112 W 27th St, New York, New York 10001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68109,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68106\/revisions\/68109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}