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Alessandro Ceschi - Becoming a Nomadic Writer

Ale’s journey to writing books in Chinese.

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I had the pleasure of conversing with my partner in crime from the Middle Kingdom, Alessandro Ceschi. We first met in 2016 in Beijing when neither of us could speak a word of Mandarin. Fast forward to today, and he's writing articles and books in Chinese!

We talked about : 

Learning Chinese in Beijing,

The Chinese film industry before Covid

The lockdown experiences in China 

The challenge of publishing a book in China (and the differences between 出版公司 and 出版社) 

Ale’s journey to becoming a « nomadic writer » (游牧作者)

Ressources : 

"Almost Family" - Article about neighborhood life during the Shanghai lockdown: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1011121

Letters from Ale - newsletter in English and Italian: https://aleceschi.substack.com/

Ale's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ale.ceschi/

Ale's Chinese column: https://www.patreon.com/alewrites (Patreon) / https://xiaobot.net/p/alewrites (小报童 - Wechat)

  • china
  • chinese
  • characters
  • writing
  • nomadic
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"Almost Family" - Article about neighborhood life during the Shanghai lockdown: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1011121

Letters from Ale - newsletter in English and Italian: https://aleceschi.substack.com/

Ale's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ale.ceschi/

Ale's Chinese column: https://www.patreon.com/alewrites (Patreon) / https://xiaobot.net/p/alewrites (小报童 - Wechat)

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