Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: New Chinese Writing (Pre-order)
Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: New Chinese Writing (Pre-order)
Edited by Zuo Fei, Xiao Yue Shan and Simon Shieh (translated by various)
Publication info
Publication info
- Designed by Xiao Yue Shan
- 204 pages
- Published
- 9781915829313 (pb) / 9781915829320 (e)
Author | Translator
Author | Translator
Fiction and poetry by Chen Chuncheng, Da Tou Ma, Du Lulu, Fu Wei, Hei Tao, Huo Xiangjie, Jia Wei, Jiang Li, Li Hongwei, Li Jiayin, Lu Yuan, Ma Xu, Mao Jian, San San, Suo Er and Tan Lin.
Translated by Irene Chen, Liuyu Ivy Chen, Michael Day, Shangyang Fang, Bernie Feng, Ana Padilla Fornieles, Jennifer Fossenbell, Dave Haysom, Aiden Heung, Zhi-Hui Ho, David Huntington, Helen Lei Jiang, Yiqiao Mao, Xiao Yue Shan, Simon Shieh, Sean Toland, Austin Woerner and Zuo Fei.
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.