China
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300 short stories:: story 164
Samantha Neugebauer
story: “The Great Wall of China” author: Kafka year: published 1931, written 1917 where: outside, nice autumn weather in the Dhabs note: a story about nation-building, oh brilliant brilliant Kafka a line: “In this respect of course our own age had a great advantage over that long-past one; almost every educated contemporary was a mason by profession…
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300 short stories:: story 103
Samantha Neugebauer
story: Train to Harbin author: Asako Serizawa year: 2016 where: Abu Dhabi, my gold chaise lounge note: This is a story both epic and intimately personal about a Japanese doctor stationed in Pingfang (now Northern China, then the Japanese puppet-state Manchukuo) during WWII, where terrible war crimes, including human experimentation, were committed. a line: “Perhaps it is simply the mind, which, in its inability to accept a fact, returns to it, sharpening the details, resolving…
SAMANTHA NEUGEBAUER 