Shen Lu
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 2
- Latest publication
- Sep 3, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for China File
- Top 5M sites
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- Jul 16, 2026
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Reading My Own Life (opens the original)
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A few months ago, a book with a slightly torn ticket on its lilac cover began emerging on my Instagram feed. A small, faint Chinese translation of the title and the author’s last name, Lin, hinted it had something to do with China. I was intrigued because the cover had no trace of red, no stars or dragons, cranes or bamboo that scream CHINA! The Memory Museum, 记忆博物馆, is a collection of nine short stories by New York-based writer M Lin. Some stories felt so real they read like nonfiction. They ar
Picking up the Threads (opens the original)
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On a hot, humid day in mid-May, I joined a group of elderly Chinese immigrant women for a textile workshop at a senior center in my Brooklyn neighborhood, Sunset Park. After I greeted my classmates—a dozen or so gray-haired women from different parts of China and Hong Kong—I settled into a corner of the classroom next to a heap of cloth scraps, strands of thread, and balls of yarn all jumbled together. The workshop’s teacher, my friend Lin Qiqing, handed me a set of embroidery tools. This was on
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