TAKES of Our Time: Revisiting Sanmao's Sahara with Jacob Kushner
Because of the of the cultural importance of her work, and the depth of Kushner’s reporting, this episode has been published longer than our typical shows to keep as much of our conversation as possible! Today we're sitting down with independent journalist Jacob Kushner to discuss his piece for Now Voyager magazine which does an empathetic deep-dive into the ultra-influential writer Sanmao! If you haven't heard of her, you likely don't read Chinese. Her most popular work, Stories of the Sahara, is so popular that the publishers have lost count of how many millions of copies have been sold…
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