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To Live by Yu Hua, trans. Michael Berry
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Date & Time
Fri, 20 Mar 2026
19:00 - 21:00
Venue
Gulp Fiction
Unit 28, 29 Covered Market,, Oxford, Oxford
Tickets
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Discuss 'To Live' by Yu Hua, translated by Michael Berry, with fellow book lovers.
Why you should come
AI-powered• Discuss Yu Hua's 'To Live', a defining literary portrait of modern Chinese history.
• Explore themes of hardship and humanity in a banned novel.
Event Highlights
- •Discuss 'To Live' by Yu Hua, translated by Michael Berry.
- •Explore a modern Chinese classic originally banned in China.
- •Understand 20th-century China through the eyes of an ordinary man.
- •Learn about the inspiration from the American folk song “Old Black Joe”
Speaker
Peter M.
Organized by: Oxford Books in Translation – Reading Group
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