The “Lin Lan Fairy Tales” was a huge project, collecting folklore for children from all across China. So why has no-one heard of it?
Chinese science fiction is finally being translated into English beyond Liu Cixin’s famous Three-Body Problem
Shangyang Fang’s acclaimed debut poetry collection meditates on desire and despair with quotes from Tang poets and techniques from Western classical …
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?
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
Entrepreneur Kai-Fu Lee and sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan weave fiction and technical explanation to illustrate the opportunities and pitfalls of artific…
How the memoirs of a Chinese American author, haunted by her parents, can help us relate to our own families
Yu Xiuhua’s “Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm” is a celebration of the power of straight-talking
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