![]() ![]() Yan’s virtual visit provides us an opportunity to ask the questions on all of our minds during this moment of global health crisis. Officially censored upon its Chinese publication, Dream of Ding Village was the result of three years of undercover work by Yan, who once 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. He will reflect on the novel’s perspective on pandemic profiteering, government corruption, as well as trauma and hope. ![]() In this special virtual Humanities Without Boundaries talk, Yan will discuss his experiences researching and writing Dream of Ding Village, the prescient story of a public health crisis of the 1990s when rural villages selling their blood led to an AIDS outbreak. Yan Lianke is a Chinese novelist frequently mentioned for the Nobel Prize for Literature he’s often called the country’s most controversial writer. ![]()
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