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Myth and Mechas: “Iron Widow” Sees Historical Figures Piloting Robots | Book Review
Wu Zetian defeats giant robot (and the patriarchy) in new novel
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Chinese Sci-Fi Beyond “The Three Body Problem” | Book Review
Newly translated short stories map out China’s sci-fi universe for English readers
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The Chang Trap: Why Eileen Chang’s Writing Rarely Works on the Big Screen
Why is it so hard to adapt the works of novelist Eileen Chang?
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Anxiety and Opportunism on the Russia-China Border | Book Review
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
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Taipei Terrors | Book Review
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
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Exploring Humanity’s Many Possible AI Futures | Book Review
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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Seeing Ghosts | Book Review
How the memoirs of a Chinese American author, haunted by her parents, can help us relate to our own families
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The Raw and Unabashed Poetry of Yu Xiuhua | Book Review
Yu Xiuhua’s “Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm” is a celebration of the power of straight-talking
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The Revenge Rocks | Fiction
Yang Ping's sci-fi story explores the darker side of humanity's space ambitions
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Burst Your Bubble With Taiwan's Queer Sci-Fi Classic
A review of the new English translation of the Chi Ta-Wei's "The Membranes," an eerily relevant imagining of the future
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Songs from the Past | Book Review
Jia Pingwa’s latest translated novel tells an alternative history of China through the music of mourning
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Lust, Revolution
In Yan Lianke's "Hard Like Water," eroticism and class conflict overlap within the Maoist vanguard of the Cultural Revolution
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