BY 鸑岚朠 YUÈ LÁNYĪNG PHOENIX MOONMIST Known as the “Soul of China” (民族魂), writer Lǔ Xùn (鲁迅) birthed one of China’s first modern short stories,《狂人日记》“A Madman’s Diary” in 1918. This [ … ]
Category: Fiction
Fiction: A Long Walk Through the Tall Dry Grass
BY N.J. CHAN Author’s note: My tale centers around a girl from rural Guangdong, China during the second Sino-Japanese war. The war affects her life in a tragic way through a heart-breaking [ … ]
Amy Sommers on her debut historical novel, Rumors from Shanghai
BY AMY SOMMERS Rumors from Shanghai tells the story of an American lawyer who goes to Shanghai in late 1940 because as a Black man, he cannot find work in his [ … ]
Fiction: A brother comes to visit
BY JESSIE TU My brother came to visit on a Saturday night. The weather had been hot all day, lingered around and stayed until late. I’d been living with a [ … ]
Short Story from a Queer Woman: Tearing
BY ALICE XIN LIU I fell for Ostrich. I, a woman married to a man, fell for a woman. And it was one of the most amazing experiences… PING, a [ … ]
Fiction Excerpt: Searching for Gao Meng
BY DANA LIU The Problematique A week after Professor Bai Hua’s lecture on the female writer Ding Ling, he called me to his office. I’d recently slipped a problematique under [ … ]
Fiction Excerpt: Tender Darling
BY NANCY L. CONYERS “Lisa, I must tell you, I don’t want to rent to a Chinese,” Helen said when she and Lisa were touring Helen’s apartment in the newly [ … ]