君子不器
Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre Trans Thomas Moran. The first thing I should do, of course, is explain what I mean by “chaohuan,” which we are rendering in English as “ultra-unreal.” The literal meaning o…
China’s New ‘Ultra-Unreal’ Fiction: Only Strange Art Can Explain It Hao Jingfang explains impetus for writing “Folding Beijing”: “One morning, I was shopping at a street market just like the one described at the start of the story: Crowded, chaotic, dirty, lively, full of cheap goods piled up everywhere. Everyone was devoted to the task…