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Elastic Girls | Short Story

A tale of Old Shanghai, fluid identities, and the unreliability of memory

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Elastic Girls | Short Story

A tale of Old Shanghai, fluid identities, and the unreliability of memory

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Fantastic Five | Short Story

A time-bending tale of love and life from author Li Hongwei

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Can One of China’s Most Famous Authors Shed His Reputation for Misogyny?

Jia Pingwa’s ‘The Sojourn Teashop,’ now with a new English translation, is a bold experiment for an author often lambasted for his characterization of women

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Can ‘Hero’ Save the Pandemic Film Genre in China?

A film from late 2022 offers something different from the maudlin sentiment of mainstream Chinese films about the human toll of Covid-19

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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