Cheng Huizi tells a heartfelt story of the love between mother and daughter in a society that often values sons more highly
Author Tang Fei spins a yarn about alien sheep and intergalactic ties that bind
A tale of Old Shanghai, fluid identities, and the unreliability of memory
Wang Jibing, China’s “delivery driver poet,” talks to TWOC about getting inspired on the road and not letting online trolls get the better of him
In this short story from established sci-fi author Chi Hui, the human race dreams of flight against the wishes of aggressive, legalistic alien overlo…
A fresh poetry translation from Cang Bai on the humble wheat crop
In Shen Shuzhi’s depiction of waning village life, a “left-behind” child comes to terms with loneliness growing up with his grandmother
As a mysterious illness ravages the population, one youngster goes on a journey in search of the terrible truth
Author Han Jinliang’s contribution to the growing body of Chinese Covid literature on pandemic restrictions and collective loss
“Maybe she had slipped through to some other dimension…Perhaps the whale had traveled the same way and died on the prairie.”
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