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…
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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…
Dispatches from the Future of a New China – Los Angeles Review of Books Nathaniel Isaacson: TRANSLATED BY KEN LIU, Broken Stars is a welcome second collection of 16 Chinese speculative fiction short stories and three short essays recounting the genre’s recent cultural and academic prominence. The volume gives voice to an eclectic group, serving…
The Loneliest Ward — by HAO JINGFANG “Qina wasn’t her usual carefree self—but who could blame her? She was in the middle of a cold war with her boyfriend, after all. She was determined to not initiate any contact and to not pick up even if he called, though secretly she was watching his every…
I Want to Write A History of Inequality – Uncanny Magazine > Hao Jingfang “Let me be clear: “Folding Beijing” represents just one of the many ways I’ve thought about inequality. It may be the most vivid, but it certainly isn’t the most important. I’ve been troubled by inequality for a long time. When I majored…
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu “The science is very convincing and up to date, but as a science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem feels like something written in the days of Asimov and Clarke. Devotees of hard science fiction will find a lot to like, since many modern science fiction novels don’t have even…
“The Passengers and the Creator” by Han Song 韓松: 《乘客與創造者》 Weird but cool story…Still not sure what the ending is about though.