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btr is a writer, contemporary art critic, and translator of English literature living in Shanghai. He has published, among others, Shanghai: Notes on City Life, Bizarre Stories, Mini Stories and Petite Mort. His translations include Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude and Winter Journal, and M&C Saatchi’s Brutal Simplicity of Thought. He was the curator of Get it Loud art festival (Literature section) in Beijing in 2012 and photo exhibition CITEMA by Zhu Hao at 10 Corso Como Shanghai in 2016. His writings on urban life, literature, film and contemporary art have appeared in, among others, e-magazine of Goethe Institut, Modern Weekly, LEAP, Artforum and Timeout Shanghai. He is the founder of online magazine Petite Mort (since 2014).

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