'Bean Paste' saga goes right to China's guts

Novelist Yan Ge's bawdy debut in English shows Sichuan in the raw

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Chinese novelist Yan Ge is now transitioning to writing in English. (Photo by Lisa Whalen)

JOHN KRICH, Contributing writer

NORWICH, U.K. -- In the midst of China's communist revolution Mao Zedong declared, "An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy."

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