Wei Hui
reads from “Marrying Buddha”
Literatures of the World
Presentation · Arno Widmann
Speaker · Kathleen Gallego Zapata
”Marrying Buddha”, the latest novel from the Chinese cult author Wei Hui, is a sequel to her debut “Shanghai Baby”. It is set in Shanghai and New York, where the protagonist wavers between two men: an American and a Japanese. This novel, unlike its predecessor, was also publicized in the People’s Republic.
Wei Hui, born in Ningbo, near Shanghai, in 1973, belongs to a new squad of young Chinese writers who polemically break with the tradition of collectivism and state-run moral beliefs, describing, instead, the individual life between joy of being and existential angst and who openly depict sexuality in particular.
Presentation · Arno Widmann
Speaker · Kathleen Gallego Zapata
”Marrying Buddha”, the latest novel from the Chinese cult author Wei Hui, is a sequel to her debut “Shanghai Baby”. It is set in Shanghai and New York, where the protagonist wavers between two men: an American and a Japanese. This novel, unlike its predecessor, was also publicized in the People’s Republic.
Wei Hui, born in Ningbo, near Shanghai, in 1973, belongs to a new squad of young Chinese writers who polemically break with the tradition of collectivism and state-run moral beliefs, describing, instead, the individual life between joy of being and existential angst and who openly depict sexuality in particular.