Cover art I designed for a possible book I’ll write someday in the future. It’s mid-Autumn Day. The rabbit on the moon must have cold feet.

Eventually released is my book in Chinese, The Reaper 《割芦苇的人》， a collection of essays. Here’s the contents part arranged as in ancient times. The title reminds you of the grim reaper? A reader said it’s reminiscent of Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper. What a surprise!

Got the book Master, a poetry collection by Simon Shieh.

congrats to Accent Accent 重音 mentor xiao yue shan on her collection launch! looking forward to her conversation with Simon Shieh via aaww-nyc.bsky.social

Three versions of MODERNIZATION (I made this morning)

Interviewed by the founder of Spittoon, Matthew Byrne, in May 2022.

I just had a book launch in English this week. Looking forward to making the whole book into English for anyone who’s interested in learning about China’s forty years’ of electric life and twenty years of electronic life. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/x7Faee02Xk9F…

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Spittoon Literary Magazine. Issue 8 vs Issue 4. In between are the years that transcended the world and us!

My story “Notes from the Consulting Room” has been accepted by Read Paper Republic, an online publication initiative. Big thanks to the translators Yun Qin Wang and Dylan Levi King. paper-republic.org/pubs/read/note…

Just had a wonderful conversation with Nicky Harman and Emily Jones from Paper Republic, Dr. Kan Qian from the Online Confucius Institute of Open University (UK), Dylan Levi King, one of the translators, and the readers. Find the recording here. confucius-institute.open.ac.uk/events/modern-…

Here’s the poem “Crying in a Public Restroom” published last year in Mingled Voices 8 by Proverse HK.

Ha, good point. Here’s the good old hard Bell Tower of Beijing.

Honored to have received first place in the 2024 Proverse Poetry Prize for my poem, “The Poet’s Lover”. Big thanks to the translator Simon Shieh. (youtu.be/gStOq9aEAQ0?si…)

Old footage of our mag: Spittoon Literary Magazine, a window into contemporary Chinese writing.

The anthology of new Chinese writing will come out in January. In collaboration with Honford Star. Pre-orders are now open on Amazon.

I’m honored to have received first place in the 2024 Proverse Poetry Prize for my poem, “The Poet’s Lover”. Big thanks to the translator Simon Shieh. (youtu.be/gStOq9aEAQ0?si…)

Zuo Fei reads her poem, 'The Poet's Lover' for the Proverse Spring Recep... youtu.be/udHAEQRgIns?si…

My essay “Genuine Country Folk” translated by Ana P. Fornieles will be published by Shanghai Literary Review. If you’re weary of “forty years of electric life and twenty years of electronic life in China”(in my words) , you’d like to step back and explore what came before.