The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stor..., Yu Chen
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stor..., Yu Chen
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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

Author: Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang

Narrator: Katharine Chin

Unabridged: 11 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/08/2022

Synopsis

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.

About Yu Chen

Yu Chen 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.

About Regina Kanyu Wang

Regina Kanyu Wang 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 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sahitya on February 12, 2022

Average Rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.4 After enjoying quite a few translated collections of Chinese SFF short stories, I was very very excited for this one since it was first announced. And I was ecstatic when I got the arc to read. This was definitely more fun among all the collections I’ve read before and I lo......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on March 09, 2022

The Way Spring Arrives is a fascinating collection of Chinese SFF in translation that also includes several essays from the translators. Everyone who worked on this project is female or non-binary and from the essays we come to understand the major significance of centering female and NB voices in C......more

Goodreads review by Alice on July 21, 2022

The stories I enjoyed were "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Tai-Chi Mashed Taro" (this story is about Zhang Dai, the famous Ming dynasty historian & essayist, and his memoir "Dream Recollections of Tao'an"), "Dragonslaying" (for the story) and "The Portrait" (for the beautiful writing). Of......more

Goodreads review by Jukaschar on January 24, 2023

Interesting and informative collection of short stories and essays. I think the title is right in bringing up that these stories are translated, originally written in a different language. It seems to make all the difference. I read a lot of anthologies in the last year, but to my knowledge all of t......more

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