![]() ![]() Whole villages were wiped out with no responsibility taken or reparations paid. Based on a real-life blood-selling scandal in eastern China, Dream of Ding Village is the result of three years of undercover work by Yan Lianke, who worked as an assistant to a well-known Beijing anthropologist in an effort to study a small village decimated by HIV/AIDS as a result of unregulated blood selling. Set in a poor village in Henan province, it is a deeply moving and beautifully written account of a blood-selling ring in contemporary China. Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, and the subject of a bitter lawsuit between author and publisher, Dream of Ding Village is Chinese novelist Yan Lianke's most important novel to date. The Guardian - The AIDS scandal China could not hush up by John Gittings PBS.org - China from the Inside - The Spread of AIDS in China: A slow acknowledgement of the "capitalism loving disease" by Meghan Laslocky It featured Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. This session, focusing on Dream of Ding Village, was hosted on February 5th, 2014 by the Asia Center. ![]()
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