LIFE
Gone Ashore: Inside the Vanishing World of China’s “Sea Nomads”
How three generations of a family gradually gave up riding the waves off Hainan’s coast
Translation
SOCIETY
Connecting would-be Chinese parents with American surrogates
An insider of the American surrogacy industry shares stories about practice banned in China
FICTION
The Stranger on the Train | Short Story
Wu Shangwei finds the motions of life through the characters met on a train ride
FICTION
Why Do Cats Gather at Night? | Short Story
Writer Wang Nuonuo's imaginative take on an age-old question
BOOKS
Interpreting ‘The Deer Park’
An analysis of 19 translations of Wang Wei’s classic poems has just been translated—back into Chinese
ARTS
‘Reading makes life wonderful’
Nothing makes me happier than the smile on a child’s face whose been given the gift of books
ARTS
Chinese Movie Translations: Fall 2017
Foreign film names get nonsensical once again as film title translators phone it in
