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Shawn Wen

Shawn Wen is a writer, radio producer and multimedia artist, based in San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, The White Review and the anthology City By City: Dispatches From The American Metropolis (Faber and Faber, 2015). Her radio work has broadcast on This American Life and video work has been screened at MoMA. Her latest book is an essay on the mime Marcel Marceau: A Twenty Minute Silence Followed By Applause (Sarabande Books, 2017).

The telling literalism in Western reviews of China’s summer blockbuster hit

BY Shawn Wen |