I have set myself a reading target of 12 books for the month of December and “Shifu, You’ll Do Anything For A Laugh” by Mo Yan is the first book that I have finished reading. “Shifu, You’ll Do Anything For A Laugh” is a collection of eight abrasive, bizarre and imaginative stories written in the 1980s and 1990s that give an ...

After watching the trailer for Zhang Yimou’s new film ‘The Flowers of War’, I can’t help being intrigued by the movie. Based on the novel ‘The 13 Women of Nanjing’ by writer Yan Geling, the film is set during a period which has become historically known as the Nanking Massacre, also called the Rape of Nanking. In 1937, during the ...