Xue Xinran shares from Buy Me the Sky

Asia Pacific Literature by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

May 21, 2015Arts

Xue Xinran shares from her 2015 book, Buy Me the Sky, recounting stories of men and women born under China's single-child policy instituted in 1979. From the businessman's son unable to pack his own suitcase - to the PhD...

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