May 2010

In May 2010, the India-China Dialogues entered its second phase in Beijing and Shanghai, where Indian and Chinese writers met once again, continuing and renewing the discussions that had begun in New Delhi in 2009. Some of the new Chinese writers who joined in were novelist Yu Hua, poet and critic Tang Xiaodu, fiction writer Sun Ganlu, and Lydia Liu, scholar of Chinese literature and culture. From India, besides the participating writers, the Dialogues were enriched by the presence of Dhrupad musician Bahauddin Dagar, and video artist Kabir Mohanty, who performed and showed their work.

A report on these Dialogues, excerpts from the work of the Indian writers, as well as texts on the China visit by I. Allan Sealy, Sharmistha Mohanty and Vivek Narayanan has appeared in the October 2010 issue of Jintian, edited by Bei Dao.