The way spring arrives and other stories
2022
Book
"From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Main title:
The way spring arrives and other stories / edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang.
Author:
Yu, Chen, 1982-, editorWang, Regina Kanyu, 1990-, editor
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2022.©2022
Collation:
xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Notes:
"Tordotcom".
Contents:
The stars we raised / Xiu XinyuThe tale of Wude's heavenly tribulation / Count EWhat does the fox say? / Xia JiaBlackbird / Shen DachengThe restaurant at the end of the universe: Tai-Chi mashed taro / Anna WuEssay: The futures of genders in Chinese science fiction / Jing TsuBaby, I love you / Zhao HaihongA saccharophilic earthworm / BaiFanRuShuangThe alchemist of Lantian / BaiFanRuShuangThe way spring arrives / Wang NuonuoEssay: Translation as retelling: An approach to translating Gu Shi's "To Procure Jade" and Ling Chen's "The Name of the Dragon" / Yilin WangThe name of the dragon / Ling ChenTo procure jade / Gu ShiA brief history of Beinakan disasters as told in a Sinitic language / Nian YuEssay: Is there such a thing as feminine quietness? A cognitive linguistics perspective / Emily Xueni JinDragonslaying / Shen YingyingNew year painting, ink and color on rice paper, Zhaoqiao Village / Chen QianThe portrait / Chu XidaoThe woman carrying a corpse / Chi HuiThe mountain and the secret of their names / Wang NuonuoEssay: Net novels and the "She Era": How internet novels opened the door for female readers and writers in China / Xueting Christine NiEssay: Writing and translation: A hundred technical tricks / Rebecca F. Kuang.
ISBN:
9781250768919 (hbk)9781250768919 (hardback)
Dewey class:
895.130108
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
733619
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | Fiction | WAY | Available |