Ten thousand miles of clouds and moons : new Chinese writing / edited by Zuo Fei, Xiao Yue Shan & Simon Shieh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fei, Zuo, editor.

Shan, Xiao Yue, 1993- editor.

Shieh, Simon, editor.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--Translations into English.

Chinese literature.

Chinese fiction--Translations into English.

Chinese fiction.

Chinese poetry--Translations into English.

Chinese poetry.

Chinese essays--Translations into English.

Chinese essays.

Physical Description:

x, 191 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

10,000 miles of clouds and moons

Place of Publication:

Stockport : Honford Star, 2025.

Language Note:

Translated from the Chinese.

Summary:

"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"--Amazon.

Contents:

Editor's letter

Mass in Dream of the red chamber / Chen Chuncheng, translated by Xiao Yue Shan

A catcher in the rye / Da Tou Ma, translated by Sean Toland

Three poems [Deer flock ; Miniature landscape ; A peach blossom] / Jiang Li, translated by Shangyang Fang

Lady Wei's dream / translated by Michael Day

No one sees the grasses growing / Mao Jian, translated by Yiqiao Mao

Three poems [A modern hermit's day out ; Introspection on a cloud ; A peach blossom] / Du Lulu, translated by Dave Haysom

Stellar corona / Huo Xiangjie, translated by Bernie Feng

Three poems [Blossom song ; Reading Man seeks crane ; Lines on ripped silk] / Fu Wei, translated by Austin Woerner

The large moon and other affairs / Lu Yuan, translated by Ana Padilla Fornieles

Three essays [吴 [Wú]; Pastoral forms; The town, or the destruction of the southern Yangtze] / Hei Tao, translated by Simon Shieh and Irene Chen

Three poems [Autumn in the capital ; On reading Eight courses of poetry: erotica from Jiang Ruoshui ; Response to a friend] / Tan Lin, translated by Aiden Heung

Pulling thunder / Li Hongwei, translated by David Huntington

Three poems [Me in the world ; Empty things ; To Ristore] / Jia Wei, translated by Liuyu Ivy Chen

Man and wife / Suo Er, translated by Zhi Hui Ho

History in Bomi time / Li Jiayin, translated by Helen Lei Jiang

Three poems [Stop at one, and no more ; Endless rain ; Once I mistook the moonlight on the sea] / Ma Xu, translated by Zuo Fei and Jennifer Fossenbell.

ISBN:

9781915829313

1915829313

OCLC:

1503575735