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Sci-Fi Luminary Chen Qiufan on AI and Chinese Literature Abroad
Renowned Chinese sci-fi writer Chen Qiufan discusses his book “AI 2041,” humanity’s AI future, and how he gets published overseas
Threads in the Cosmos
Author Tang Fei spins a yarn about alien sheep and intergalactic ties that bind
Will ChatGPT Really Kill the Chinese Translation Industry?
Four translators and interpreters talk about the impact new technologies like generative AI are having on their work and future career prospects
Elastic Girls | Short Story
A tale of Old Shanghai, fluid identities, and the unreliability of memory
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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Another Kind of Wheat | Poetry
A fresh poetry translation from Cang Bai on the humble wheat crop
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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
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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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Neighbor | Fiction
In Zhao Song’s newly translated thriller, a recluse moves into a mysterious apartment block where not everything is as it seems
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