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1 online resource |
| Summary |
From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking new short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories , you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom. Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. Time travel to a winter's day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. New York : Tordotcom, 2022. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB). |
| Contents |
The stars we raised / Xiu Xinyu ; translated by Judy Yi Zhou -- The tale of Wude's heavenly tribulation / Count E ; translated by Mel "etvolare" Lee -- What does the fox say / Xia Jia -- Blackbird / Shen Dacheng ; translated by Cara Healey -- The restaurant at the end of the universe: Tai-Chi Mashed Taro / Anna Wu ; translated by Carmen Yiling Yan -- Essay: the futures of genders in Chinese science fiction / Jing Tsu -- Baby, I love you / Zhao Haihong ; translated by Elizabeth Hanlon -- A saccharophilic earthworm / BaiFanRuShuang ; translated by Ru-Ping Chen -- The alchemist of Lantian / BaiFanRuShuang / translated by Ru-Ping Chen -- The way spring arrives / Wang Nuonuo ; translated by Rebecca F. Kuang -- Essay: translation as retelling: an approach to translating Gu Shi's "To procure Jade" and Ling Chen's "The name of the dragon" / Yilin Want -- The name of the dragon / Ling Wang ; translated by Yilin Wang -- To procure jade / Gu Shi ; translated by Yilin Wang -- A brief history of Beinakan disasters as told in a Sinitic language / Nian Yu ; translated by Ru-Ping Chen -- Essay: Is there such a thing as Feminine quietness? A cognitive linguistics perspective / Emiliy Xueni Jin -- Dragonslaying / Shen Yingying ; translated by Emily Xueni Jin -- New Year painting, ink and color on rice paper, Zhaoqiao village / Chen Qian ; translated by Emily Xueni Jin -- The portrait / Chu Xiado ; translated by Gigi Chang -- The woman carrying a corpse / Chi Hui ; translated by Judith Huang -- The mountain and the secret of their names / Wang Nuonuo ; translated by Rebecca F. Kuang -- Essay: Net novels and the "She Era" : how internet novels opened the door for female readers and writers in China / Xueting Christine Ni -- Essay: Writing and translation: a hundred technical tricks / Rebecca F. Kuang. |
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Short stories, Chinese -- Translations into English.
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Science fiction, Chinese -- Translations into English.
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Fantasy fiction, Chinese -- Translations into English.
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Chinese fiction -- 21st century -- Translations into English.
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Science fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Short stories.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Yu, Chen, 1982- editor.
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Wang, Regina Kanyu, 1990- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781250768919 |
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9781250768933 (electronic bk) |
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