Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: New Chinese Writing
Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: New Chinese Writing edited by Simon Shieh, Zuo Fei, Xiao Yue Shan
English | 29 Jan. 2025 | ISBN: 1915829313, 9781915829320 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 1.5 MB
English | 29 Jan. 2025 | ISBN: 1915829313, 9781915829320 | True EPUB | 280 pages | 1.5 MB
Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons gathers sixteen phenomenal writers of the Chinese language in their English debut: eight fiction writers, six poets, and two essayists. Amongst these dazzling tellings, the planets are being pulled closer to the earth; a treasured classical fiction holds the secrets of the universe; shameful acts of urban ennui are committed over- and underground; a couple navigates the phantasmagoric border between life and death; the classrooms of the eighties and nineties are fleetingly free.
Ranging from cityscapes to mountain ranges, ancestral lands to parallel worlds, these authors exhibit a panoramic vista of contemporary Chinese-language writing at its most imaginative and incisive, balancing intellectual power with lyrical enchantment to lend insight into a nation oscillating between tradition and modernity, apocalyptic visions and pedestrian loves, provocation and nostalgia, reality and dreamscapes.