The presumed kidnapping of the Hong Kong bookseller and British citizen Lee Bo late last year has brought international attention to the challenges faced by the Hong Kong publishing business.
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Iron and Silk premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 has a movie based on a memoir about teachers on the front lines of U.S.-China relations come to the big screen. Director Shirley Sun’s mostly-English-language film adaptation of Mark Salzman’s 1986 book in which the author played himself grossed just over $350,000 and was never released in China. It was a film ahead of its time.
What was then a trickle of mutual interest between China and the U.S. is now a matter of daily fascination. Like Salzman, longtime
New Yorker writer Peter Hessler captured his time trying to shape young minds at a teacher’s college in China’s interior.