{"id":1148,"date":"2009-02-14T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/yiyun-li-the-vagrants-and-chinas-cultural-revolution.html"},"modified":"2009-02-14T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T20:05:00","slug":"yiyun-li-the-vagrants-and-chinas-cultural-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/yiyun-li-the-vagrants-and-chinas-cultural-revolution.html","title":{"rendered":"Yiyun Li, &quot;The Vagrants&quot; and China&#8217;s Cultural Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SZclYkmw3sI\/AAAAAAAAAGI\/Y2zy7a-QC50\/s1600-h\/china.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SZclYkmw3sI\/AAAAAAAAAGI\/Y2zy7a-QC50\/s320\/china.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>This sunday <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/la-ca-yiyun-li15-2009feb15,0,2214634,full.story\">i have a piece<\/a> in the LAT on author Yiyun Li, a native of China now living in Oakland &#8212; and her new novel, &#8220;The Vagrants,&#8221; which is quite beautifully observed as well as brutal in the tale it tells. some of you may know her from her exquisite short stories, which have a bit of william trevor to them.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>interested to read a bit of the book? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivechapters.com\/the_spring_equinox\/index_full.php\">this<\/a> will take you to an excerpt published on fivechapters.com.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>the profile is the latest of what i&#8217;m calling my &#8220;writers in peril&#8221; series. (this was especially true when she was in peril with US immigration.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>the week i spoke to her, it seemed like every cultural figure i was dealing with was chinese.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: Flicr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/fireballzer0\/957538946\/\">24<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sunday i have a piece in the LAT on author Yiyun Li, a native of China now living in Oakland &#8212; and her new novel, &#8220;The Vagrants,&#8221; which is quite beautifully observed as well as brutal in the tale it tells. some of you may know her from her exquisite short stories, which have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,423,546,547],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-china","8":"category-william-trevor","9":"category-yiyun-li","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}