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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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Flight | Short Story

In this short story from established sci-fi author Chi Hui, the human race dreams of flight against the wishes of aggressive, legalistic alien overlords

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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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Epidemic

As a mysterious illness ravages the population, one youngster goes on a journey in search of the terrible truth

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Grass Jelly

A town of small-town fortunes by writer Wang Yu

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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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Fly to Weightless Island

Check out our new translated Chinese short story, by Hong Kong-based writer Cheng Jiaoyang