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Yan Ge


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Sichuan, China
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Yan Ge (Chinese: 颜歌; born 1984) is the pen name of Chinese writer Dai Yuexing (戴月行).

Yan Ge was born Dai Yuexing in 1984 in Sichuan, China. She began publishing in 1994. She completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association. Her writing uses a lot of Sichuanese, rather than Standard Chinese (Mandarin).[1] People’s Literature (Renmin Wenxue 人民文学) magazine recently chose her – in a list reminiscent of The New Yorker's ‘20 under 40’ – as one of China's twenty future literary masters. In 2012 she was chosen as Best New Writer by the prestigious Chinese Literature Media Prize (华语文学传媒大奖 最佳新人奖). ...more

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Strange Beasts of China
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“You're only alive for a while, but dead forever. How you live, how you die, that's your own business.”
― Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
tags: death, life, life-philosophy
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“My mother used to tell me, ‘You can’t be sure that beasts aren’t people, or that people aren’t just another type of beast”
― Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
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“I understood now that his innocence didn't come from not knowing anything, but rather from having seen everything there was to see, understanding it, and setting it down.”
― Yan Ge, Strange Beasts of China
tags: innocence, knowledge, understanding
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