“I refuse to conform to this stupidity”: Up-and-coming poet Shangyang Fang talks to TWOC about musicality in verse and not conforming to tropes
Shangyang Fang’s acclaimed debut poetry collection meditates on desire and despair with quotes from Tang poets and techniques from Western classical …
How the spontaneous music of a Chinese-Syrian duo fuses the sounds of traditional instruments across cultures
Wu Zetian defeats giant robot (and the patriarchy) in new novel
Newly translated short stories map out China’s sci-fi universe for English readers
Why is it so hard to adapt the works of novelist Eileen Chang?
A new film by Guangxi-born director Yang Xiao bends an ear to the region’s dying tradition of ethnic folk ballads
Painter Pan Dehai talks with TWOC about the ’85 New Wave movement and the reception of his cute but satiric political works
Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey’s “On the Edge” portrays how China’s rise reshaped the reality of the people living just across the river
Taiwanese ghost story “Whisper” rummages through the island’s past and present for a local spin on horror, but fails to lend luster to worn-out tropes
Gong Li’s yarn of empowered female espionage in war-torn Shanghai aimed big at the Chinese box office, but confuses complexity for entertainment
Entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee and sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan weave fiction and technical explanation to illustrate the opportunities and pitfalls of artific…
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