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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
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Liberation Day | Short Story
Author Han Jinliang’s contribution to the growing body of Chinese Covid literature on pandemic restrictions and collective loss
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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.”
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Can China’s Detective Novels Finally Make Crime Pay?
China’s long quest to produce a great crime novel
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Neighbor | Fiction
In Zhao Song’s newly translated thriller, a recluse moves into a mysterious apartment block where not everything is as it seems
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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?
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Crabapple Blossoms | Poetry
Enjoy a poem on spring flowers and rains by university lecturer and writer Wang Ruiyuan
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Martial Tea | Fiction
Hu Yuesheng’s newly translated short story harks back to “wuxia” tales of old
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