Fiction
| Hong Kong
A Day in the Life of Curly Jones, Lawyer
John Burdett
Every morning after the paracetamol, the coffee and the pain au chocolat at the Hong Kong Club, Curly Jones, partner in the law firm of Magnus, Gray and Ping, sat back, gazed at the ceiling and pondered the precarious nature of life in general and his in particular.
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Interview
| India
Interview: Jeet Thayil
Martin Alexander
I knew China would be a part of the book. I didn’t know how big a part until I started to write the section that came to be titled ‘Story of the Pipe’. It is an unexpected Russian-style digression into China, but the title tells the reader why it is there and how it feeds off and into the main narrative.
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Art
| China
The Colour of Money
Zhang Bingjiang
In the colour of the 100 yuan note, the artist embarks on a project that will be impossible to complete: a portrait of each Chinese official convicted of corruption. 1600 done, many more to do.
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John Wall Barger, Jeet Thayil, Gopilal Acharya, Sivakami Velliangiri, Reid Mitchell, Jéanpaul Ferro, Changming Yuan, Ma Yan
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