When Everything Falls Apart, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China, Tolstoy, and the Power of Art, with Adam Hochschild

Published: July 16, 2021, noon

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A journalist and renowned expert on China, Schell has penned his first novel, drawing on his knowledge of Mao Zedong\\u2019s Cultural Revolution and on his conviction that art and love can outlive brutality. Joining him is MacArthur \\u201cgenius\\u201d and award-winning writer Yiyun Li, who came of age during the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown, emigrated to the U.S. at 23 as a young scientist, and eventually took the literary world by storm with her fiction, memoir and essays. This talk is moderated by Adam Hochschild.

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