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

By: Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang

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Paperback | 28 March 2023

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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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Essential reading for anyone interested in a fuller picture of Chinese fiction as a whole.--Booklist, starred review

With this impressive anthology, Chen and Wang bring together the first English translations of 17 Chinese-language stories by female and nonbinary writers. . . . Offers much to chew on.--Publishers Weekly

An important anthology showcasing compelling voices and perspectives in science fiction and fantasy.--Library Journal

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