The Fat Years

Meeting Behind China’s New Democracy Crackdown,” New York Review of Books blog, February 20, 2011.

About the Authors

Chan Koonchung was born in Shanghai and raised in Hong Kong. He has previously written several works of nonfiction, a novel, and short stories. This is his first novel to be translated into English. In 1976 Chan founded the influential City magazine in Hong Kong, where he was editor in chief and then publisher for twenty-three years. He lives in Beijing.

Michael S. Duke received his doctorate in Chinese from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1975. After thirty years of teaching, he is Professor Emeritus of Chinese and Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia.

Julia Lovell teaches modern Chinese history and literature at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is the author of The Great Wall: China Against the World and The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China and writes on China for the Guardian, the Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. Her many translations of modern Chinese fiction include, most recently, Lu Xun’s The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China.

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