The way spring arrives and other stories
Book |
First edition. |
Tom Doherty Associates,
New York :
2022.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimsby | Fic Che | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Available |
About
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 boundariesof death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection.
Details
- ISBN: 9781250768919
- Physical Description: xiv, 385 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2022.
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Formatted Contents Note:
The star we raised -- The tale of Wude's Heavenly Tribulation -- What does the fox say? -- The restaurant at the End of the Universe: Tai Chi mashed -- Essay: the futures of genders in Chinese science fiction -- Baby, I love you -- A saccharophile earthworm -- The alchemist of Lantian -- The way spring arrives -- Essay: translation as retelling: an approach to translation Gu Shi's "To Procure Jade" and Ling Chen's "The Name of the Dragon" -- The name of the dragon -- To procure jade -- A brief history of Beinakan disasters as told in a Sinitic language -- Essay: Is there such a thing as feminine quietness? A cognitive linguistics perspective -- Dragonslaying -- New Year painting, ink , color on rice paper, Zhaoqiao Village -- The portrait -- The woman carrying a corpse -- The mountain and the secret of their names -- 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.