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Xiaolu Guo and Ma Jian discuss the absurdities and excitement of contemporary China as captured in their writing. Xiaolu Guo's Village of Stone is an incisive portrait of China's new urban youth, depicting a twenty-first century lifestyle which hides the poverty and cruelty of their past. Editor Rebecca Carter reads from the English translation. Ma Jian's The Noodle Maker is a virtuoso piece of 'red humour' about a writer of political propaganda who yearns to capture the lives of ordinary people. Translator Flora Drew reads from the English.