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Title:

The way spring arrives and other stories / edited by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Tom Doherty Associates,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Short stories, Chinese--Translations into English.
Science fiction, Chinese--Translations into English.
Fantasy fiction, Chinese--Translations into English.
Chinese fiction--21st century--Translations into English.
Science fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories.

Other Authors:

Yu, Chen, 1982- editor.
Wang, Regina Kanyu, 1990- editor.

Contents:

Essay: Writing and translation: A hundred technical tricks / Rebecca F. Kuang. The tale of Wude's heavenly tribulation / Count E -- What does the fox say? / Xia Jia -- Blackbird / Shen Dacheng -- The restaurant at the end of the universe: Tai-Chi mashed taro / Anna Wu -- Essay: The futures of genders in Chinese science fiction / Jing Tsu -- Baby, I love you / Zhao Haihong -- A saccharophilic earthworm / BaiFanRuShuang -- The alchemist of Lantian / BaiFanRuShuang -- The way spring arrives / Wang Nuonuo -- Essay: Translation as retelling: An approach to translating Gu Shi's "To Procure Jade" and Ling Chen's "The Name of the Dragon" / Yilin Wang -- The name of the dragon / Ling Chen -- To procure jade / Gu Shi -- A brief history of Beinakan disasters as told in a Sinitic language / Nian Yu -- Essay: Is there such a thing as feminine quietness? A cognitive linguistics perspective / Emily Xueni Jin -- Dragonslaying / Shen Yingying -- New year painting, ink and color on rice paper, Zhaoqiao Village / Chen Qian -- The portrait / Chu Xidao -- The woman carrying a corpse / Chi Hui -- The mountain and the secret of their names / Wang Nuonuo -- Essay: Net novels and the "She Era": How internet novels opened the door for female readers and writers in China / Xueting Christine Ni -- Essay: Writing and translation: A hundred technical tricks / Rebecca F. Kuang.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

1250768918
9781250768919

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1289616706

LCCN:

2021059025

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)