Literary Lunchtime with Anchee Min (Pearl of China) in conversation with Emily Parker

The Asia Society presents the first of a new series of lunch time author programs.

Welcome to the first of a new series of lunch time author programs at Asia Society. Enjoy a reading and discussion with author Anchee Min on the publication of her latest book, Pearl of China, a novel inspired by the life of the writer Pearl Buck. Anchee Min was born in Shanghai and while a teenager during the Cultural Revolution, she was ordered to denounce Pearl S. Buck as an American imperialist.

Min will be joined in a conversation with Emily Parker, Arthur Ross Center on U.S.-China Relations Fellow. Followed by a book sale and signing. Books available at AsiaStore.org.

Attendees are invited to bring their own lunch. Complimentary tea will be served.

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. At 17 years old she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madam Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as an actress in propaganda films. Min moved to the United States in 1984. Her first book, the memoir Red Azalea, became an international bestseller. Her other novels include Empress Orchid and The Last Empress, set during the last years of Imperial China; and Katherine, Becoming Madame Mao, and Wild Ginger, set during the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath.

Emily Parker, Arthur Ross Center on U.S.-China Relations Fellow is working on a book about the Internet and democracy. She has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times and has written extensively about China and Japan for the Wall Street Journal.

Based in New York, China, and around the world, Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations fellows contribute significant research in the areas of U.S.-China relations, journalism and new media, and environment. The annual Arthur Ross Fellowship is based at the Asia Society headquarters in New York.

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