“It’s frustrating, that you know what good literature is but you cannot get it totally right.”

—  Geling Yan

Source: "Chinese writer finds freedom in English" in Reuters https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-literature-yan-interview/chinese-writer-finds-freedom-in-english-idUSTRE53M00D20090423 (22 April 2009)

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Chinese writer and screenwriter 1958

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