Yang Yi

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• 時が滲む朝

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  Akutagawa 2008 (first half) · ★ Winner

  時が滲む朝

  Toki ga nijimu asa

  AITitle translated by AI:“A Morning Blurred by Time”

  Yang Yi · 44 when first published

  Novel · 150 pages · Politics, Coming of age, Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:Two close friends from a small Chinese village, Liang Haoyuan and Xie Zhiqiang, enter university in 1988 full of ambition, join the movement for democracy and are expelled after Tiananmen, and their lives are followed until just before Beijing hosts the Olympics.

• ワンちゃん

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  Akutagawa 2007 (second half) · Candidate

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  Wanchan

  Yang Yi · 43 when first published

  Novella · 146 pages · Migration

  AIAI-generated summary:Fed up with her womanising first husband, Wang Aiqin, a tireless Chinese woman known as Wan-chan, marries into a family in rural Shikoku through an arranged match, looks after her mother-in-law and runs matchmaking tours to China for local bachelors.