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The Apparitions | Short Story
The short story interweaves folklore with a modern setting to examine the relation between the spiritual and the secular
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Escapades at Blue Lake Manor | Short Story
An isolated Danish literary retreat forces four writers to confront the perils of their craft
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The Precious Thing | Short Story
In this sci-fi tale, a soldier uses a talisman from the past to stay human—and pays a price for his decision
BOOKS
Genius Loci
Lin Yutang’s biography of Su Dongpo presents a supernaturally complex portrait of the poet
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Our Family Secret | Short Story
Writer Yang Fei captures the suffocating yet familiar patterns of domestic life in this enigmatic tale
TRAVEL
The Mountain and “the Marsh”
The real story of Liangshan, the classic setting of “Outlaws of the Marsh”
BOOKS
Give Me a Girl at Age Eighteen
Feng Tang’s once-scandalous debut has aged as badly as its adolescent narrator
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Ticket to Tomorrow | Short Story
In this short sci-fi tale, two friends take different paths to the future—but only one will make peace with the present
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The Socialite | Short Story
As a fading Chinese-American aristocrat meets the mainland’s nouveau riche, they discover that the more things change, the more they stay the same
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