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Grain coupon from Hebei province, 1975 A grain rationing system was implemented by the People's Republic of China in 1955 to control food production and boost industrialization . This system relied heavily on the use of grain coupons (Chinese: 粮票), which were a critical tool for implementing the policy. [ 1 ]
Fang Fang (Chinese: 方方), pen name of Wang Fang (汪芳; born 11 May 1955), is a Chinese writer, known for her literary depictions of the working poor. She won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010. Born in Nanjing , she attended Wuhan University in 1978 to study Chinese.
Wuhan Diary (Chinese: 武汉日记; pinyin: Wǔhàn rìjì) is an online diary written by Chinese writer Fang Fang about the life of the people of Wuhan, China during the Wuhan lockdown during efforts to quarantine the center of an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and stop it spreading.
Richard Bernstein said in the New York Times that the book is "remarkably cool, precise and in places even good-humored". [4]In The New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson wrote that Fang has "..a two sided heritage...a role model for a group of rebellious spirits...[and] the rebirth of Chinese science as a full partner in the emerging world community of inquiring minds".
JF Books, formerly known as Jifeng Bookstore (Chinese: 季风书园; pinyin: jìfēng shū yuán), is an independent bookstore in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It is the only Chinese-language bookstore in D.C. [4] It was originally founded in 1997 in Shanghai.
Gene Luen Yang (楊謹倫) – graphic novelist, whose book American Born Chinese was the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award; Laurence Yep (叶祥添) – two-time winner of the Newbery Honor; Connie Young Yu – writer, historian, lecturer, and 2016 "Woman of the Year" California Senate District 13; Judy Yung – writer
Hu Fang was born in Zhejiang Province, China and studied at the Chinese Literature Department of Wuhan University. Fiction writing is a parallel with his curatorial practice, his published novels include Garden of Mirrored Flowers (Sternberg Press and Vitamin Creative Space, 2010), Pavilion to the Heart's Insight (Vol.