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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

By Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang digital book - Fable

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An Oprah Daily Top 25 Fantasy Book of 2022

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.

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3.5
“A really interesting mix of fantasy, scifi, and essay”
“This is an excellent collection of Chinese Sci-Fi and Fantasy writing. I feel like this book was good for me to read because it was written by Chinese female and non-binary authors and as such I got a look at a subculture of China that apparently had been stymied in its development but has still flourished. I got to it by searching my library catalog for R.F. Kuang and she translated for the authors and wrote an essay about the translation process for the work. Some stories were better than others, but I liked them all.”
“"The woman carrying a corpse": favola brevissima, riguardo una donna che porta sulle spalle il cadavere di una persona amata. Nel suo tragitto incontra diverse persone (il viaggiatore, il critico, l'ottimista, il pessimista, l'altruista ecc), ognuna delle quali le dà consigli, fa supposizioni sul perché sia così attaccata a quel corpo, ma lei continua ad andare avanti dimenticando il perché originale delle sue convinzioni e assimila invece quelle delle persone che incontra. Solo l'incontro con un matto le fa togliere di dosso le aspettative/motivi accumulate lungo la strada, le fa notare come dal cadavere (che lei non ha mai guardato) siano nati fiori e frutti e per l'ultima volta le viene posta la domanda "why are you carrying them?" e finalmente risponde con sincerità: "I don't know. As far as I remember, this is how it has always been. I don't know how to walk down the road without such a burden". Peso che ho interpretato come somma delle aspettative che altri mettono sulle sue spalle, e il matto infine propone di portare lui in giro, ma non come cadavere (quindi non come un peso da aggiungere agli altri ma come un accompagnatore). Si possono dare altre interpretazioni a questa storia (magari è una metafora della persistenza che porta a essere ciechi, o il seguire una routine che fa dimenticare come uscire dagli schemi) quindi penso valga la pena leggerla, tanto è brevissima.”

About Yu Chen

Yu Chen, Editor, has been working on the publication of science fiction and fantasy for almost ten years. She has planned and established an SFF column “Tales from Nowhere,” organized and participated a number of SFF forums, conventions, workshops and conferences, and published more than ten SFF books, including “Hospital Trilogy” by Han Song (Hospital, Exorcism and Revenant) and The New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction: History, Poetics and Text by Song Mingwei. Exorcism won the Best Original Book Award of the 29th Galaxy Award of Chinese Science Fiction.

Regina Kanyu Wang, Editor, is a bilingual writer from Shanghai who writes both in Chinese and English. She has won the SF Comet international short story competition and multiple Xingyun Awards for Global Chinese SF. Her stories can be found in various magazines and anthologies, as well as her two individual collections, Of Cloud and Mist 2.2 and The Seafood Restaurant. She is the cofounder of SF AppleCore and the Overseas Market Director of Storycom, and will soon join the CoFUTURES project at the University of Oslo to research contemporary Chinese science fiction by female creators.

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