{"id":4943,"date":"2013-01-06T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4943"},"modified":"2013-01-06T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-06T17:34:21","slug":"but-i-think-if-you-make-life-viable-where-people-are-and-develop-strong-local-economies-thats-a-lot-more-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4943","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;But I think if you make life viable where people are, and develop strong local economies, that&#8217;s a lot more sustainable.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/magazines\/post-magazine\/article\/1118242\/never-twain-shall-meet\">Joanna Chiu:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mishra was in the city to discuss his book <a href=\"http:\/\/blekko.com\/ws\/+%22From+the+Ruins+of+Empire%3A+The+Intellectuals+Who+Remade+Asia%22\">From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia<\/a>, at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in October. The Economist named the book one of the best of 2012 &#8211; describing Mishra as &#8220;the heir to Edward Said&#8221; and having a &#8220;surprising new perspective&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In person there is only a hint of the caustic, mischievous wit he expresses with full force in his writing. He has a knack for taking people down a notch.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, when fellow Indian novelist Salman Rushdie was already an established member of the global literary elite, Mishra wrote a review describing the former&#8217;s novel The Ground Beneath her Feet as &#8220;an alarming new kind of anti-literature&#8221;. More recently, Mishra criticised Rushdie for calling Nobel laureate Mo Yan a &#8220;patsy&#8221; for refusing to sign a petition calling for the release of writer\/human rights activist Liu Xiaobo. In an article for The Guardian newspaper, he accused Rushdie of being guilty of accepting the &#8220;unexamined assumption lurking in the Western scorn for Mo Yan&#8217;s proximity to the Chinese regime: that Anglo-American writers, naturally possessed of loftier virtue, stand along with their governments on the right side of history&#8221;.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Chiu: Mishra was in the city to discuss his book From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival in October. The Economist named the book one of the best of 2012 &#8211; describing Mishra as &#8220;the heir to Edward Said&#8221; and having a &#8220;surprising new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}