Paper Republic – Chinese Literature in Translation

And we're back!
I know you're all thinking it, 浪子回头金不换, the prodigal newsletter has returned and there's nothing sweeter. Well I hope that we can deliver with this, the first instalment in a year and a half.
Be warned though, we're not quite back to our regularly scheduled program, since the perversion of the blue bird site and its lovely literary community has meant that news and stories have …...

When I look out the window in my room, I see a wall. On the other side of the wall is a junior high school. Each morning, loudspeakers blare out staccato blasts of sound. When my mind is unsettled, I stand at the window, look out on the schoolyard, and...

Shang Shu had made up her mind: she was going to get married as soon as she could, before she became a shengnü – a leftover woman, an old maid, married to her career.
“And I’m going to marry money,” she added, “whatever it takes.” The consulting team I headed was out eating dinner, and Shang Shu made her announcement through a mouthful of Shuntak-style char-siu, the roast pork a perfect balance of lean and fatty meat...

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