By: Xue Yiwei & Miao Wei (Translator) Abstract: Xue Yiwei is a contemporary Chinese writer based in Montreal, Canada. Xue’s writingis stylistically elegant, linguistically beautiful, but at times intellectually challenging.Influenced by French existentialism, Xue has a dazzling talent for revealing the absurdityand emptiness of history in his works. In this early short story, first published […]
Fiction
Beef Noodles
Li Ang Photo by Ron Dollete Through an unexpectedly rich bowl of beef noodles, author Li Ang engages and disentangles the complex historical, cultural, and ideological weave of Taiwanese identity. Li Ang’s ability to bring such disparate elements into a single story speaks to both her writing as well as culinary prowess. In 2007, “Beef […]
Ring Flower
By Ge Fei Translated by Eleanor Goodman Ge Fei Are there still openings in the ceaseless recycling of sensational news stories through which we can bear witness to the unmarked tragedies rupturing countless lives all around us? What role can the media play to address the unacknowledged grieving of our age? In his characteristically poetic style, […]
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