
Spring Days Past | Short Story
In Shen Shuzhi’s depiction of waning village life, a “left-behind” child comes to terms with loneliness growing up with his grandmother

Liberation Day | Short Story
Author Han Jinliang’s contribution to the growing body of Chinese Covid literature on pandemic restrictions and collective loss

Prairie Whale | Short Story
“Maybe she had slipped through to some other dimension…Perhaps the whale had traveled the same way and died on the prairie.”

Can China’s Detective Novels Finally Make Crime Pay?
China’s long quest to produce a great crime novel

Neighbor | Fiction
In Zhao Song’s newly translated thriller, a recluse moves into a mysterious apartment block where not everything is as it seems

Rustbelt Renaissance: China’s Post-Industrial Northeast Rises Again in Film
Why is China’s Northeast such a fertile setting for film, music, and literature?

Crabapple Blossoms | Poetry
Enjoy a poem on spring flowers and rains by university lecturer and writer Wang Ruiyuan

Martial Tea | Fiction
Hu Yuesheng’s newly translated short story harks back to “wuxia” tales of old
