Dylan Levi King

Jan 14, 2025 | theguardian.com | Dylan Levi King

The yen is low, and everybody is coming to Tokyo. If that sounds familiar, it’s not because I’m being coy or hedging my bets; it is the only information to be found in most English-language coverage of Japan’s capital in the aftermath of the pandemic. I can’t stop reading these accounts.

Jan 6, 2025 | thebaffler.com | Dylan Levi King |Bryony Lau |Zoe Hu |Reed McConnell

The yen is low, and everybody is coming to Tokyo. If that sounds familiar, it’s not because I’m being coy or hedging my bets; it is the only information to be found in most English-language coverage of Japan’s capital in the aftermath of the pandemic. I can’t stop reading these accounts.

Dec 3, 2024 | theworldofchinese.com | Dylan Levi King

The pigs increased. There were big ones and small ones, light-colored and dark-colored, male and female, and almost all of them related in some way. They pressed against each other. They knew what it meant when they saw Ah-jun coming down the slope. The piglets kept to the margins, knowing they would not be able to press themselves into competition with the larger swine. Primordial intuition sent them clinging to their mothers’ teats.

Nov 6, 2024 | theworldofchinese.com | Dylan Levi King

Although details suggested a Chinese setting, the small town in Five Spice Street evoked the no-place of dystopian cinema, or an austere stage for a Bertolt Brecht play. Characters in the book refuse to take shape. Madam X, who the narrator places in the spotlight, is never truly known.

Oct 8, 2024 | theworldofchinese.com | Dylan Levi King

Most importantly, to the Swedish Academy, Can Xue is nearing the end of a brilliant career that has not been sufficiently celebrated by other prizes: apart from being long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize a couple of times, her work has been overlooked by both Chinese and international prize juries. Weighing up other factors to the horse race, there is pressure to send the Nobel Prize to Asia.