The Year of the Shanghai Shark

Mo Zhi Hong‘s debut novel unpretentiously showcases modern China through characters, young and old, who deal with the situations and issues during the ‘Year of the Shanghai Shark’ – the year of Yao Ming’s rise in Shanghai, SARS and the Iraq War. The book won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award 2009 for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In conversation with Steve McCarty.
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