WHAT: Award-winning author Gish Jen will discuss her latest book "Thank you Mr. Nixon" in conversation with Oma Lee and Melinda Liu. This RASBJ online event includes Q&A.

WHEN: Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 8:00-9:00 PM Beijing Time

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: Author Gish Jen will talk about her new book, "Thank You, Mr. Nixon", a collection of linked stories capturing some of the effects of the opening of China on ordinary people. Both funny and poignant, it opens with a posthumous letter from a Chinese girl in heaven to "poor Mr. Nixon" in hell, and proceeds to range both widely and deeply. She will conduct a reading from her book, which represents a fictional journey through U.S.-China relations, capturing the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change. Opal Chen reunites with her Chinese sisters after forty years; newly cosmopolitan Lulu Koo wonders why Americans "like to walk around in the woods with the mosquitoes"; Hong Kong parents go to extreme lengths to reestablish contact with their "number-one daughter" in New York; and Betty Koo, brought up on "no politics, just make money," finds she must reassess her mother's philosophy.

HOW MUCH: Free for members of RASBJ and partner RAS branches; RMB 100 for non-members. Non-members who wish to become RASBJ members before attending this talk, please sign up at https://rasbj.org/membership at least 72 hours before the event.

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