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Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

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The Pious and the Pommery

Essay

Issue No. 18

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

Issue No. 18

I.   Where is the champagne? On second thoughts this is not entirely the right question. The champagne is in the ice trough, on...

Essay

April 2019

Ariana and the Lesbian Narcissus

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Essay

April 2019

‘Avoid me not!’ ‘Avoid me not!’                                   Narcissus   Let me describe a GIF I’ve been watching. A lot....

Heilan was established for a simple reason: over the past twenty years, there has not emerged a single medium devoted to the artistic and spiritual ideals of Chinese literature, so we created one according to our aspirations I founded the organisation (the name of which means Black & Blue in Chinese) as an avant-garde writers’ group in 1992 The inaugural print magazine was published in 1995, but was closed down by the state before a second issue could be released It re-launched as a digital publication at the beginning of this century, and since then we have published 127 issues The purpose of the magazine is to preserve and promote young writers stymied by the drastic changes to China’s literary landscape These changes had started even before 1990, when I first started writing In the period between 1978 and 1990, my society’s yearning for literature, art, free thinking, and freedom found expression as Chinese printing presses published almost the entire Western canon It was a time when the entire society took pride in the accumulation of knowledge, accompanied by a proliferation of literature magazines This cultural moment peaked in 1990 with the rise of a Chinese avant-garde literature that placed art at its centre: writers such as Yu Hua, Su Tong, Ge Fei, Ma Yuan, Sun Ganlu and Lv Xin This was the lucky generation The demand for literature meant that experimental writers like Sun Ganlu and Ma Yuan were free from the pressure of finding publishers for their works, even enjoying sponsorship from official institutes Su Tong and Sun Ganlu were given the title of ‘professional writer’ by the China Writers’ Association (meaning that they were paid a lifetime salary) Such treatment is now unimaginable   What are the reasons for the sudden decline of experimental Chinese literature around 1990? Deng Xiaoping’s economic and political reform and China’s subsequent rapid economic development might be identified among the causes Government-funded platforms for the publication of literature suffered – although a few still survive today, they can only maintain their rosters and are unable to assist new writers Secondly, the market’s increasing

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Contributor

July 2016

Rosanna Mclaughlin is an editor at The White Review.

Ten Years at Garage Moscow

Art Review

November 2018

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art Review

November 2018

When I arrive in Moscow, I am picked up from the airport by Roman, a patriotic taxi driver sent to collect me courtesy of...
Becoming Alice Neel

Art

August 2017

Rosanna Mclaughlin

Art

August 2017

From the first time I saw Alice Neel’s portraits, I wanted to see the world as she did. Neel was the Matisse of the...

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Issue No. 16

Scroll, Skim, Stare

Orit Gat

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Issue No. 16

1.   This is an essay about contemporary art that includes no examples. It includes no examples because its...

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October 2012

Film: Palestinian Airlines

Eddie Wrey

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October 2012

    Palestinian Airlines Produced and Directed by Eddie Wrey Co-produced and translated by Max Wrey Co-edited by Rye...

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October 2015

War is Easy, Peace is Hard

Alexander Christie-Miller

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October 2015

At around midday on 19 July, Koray Türkay boarded a bus in Istanbul and set off for the Syrian...

 

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