THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES AND OTHER STORIES

According to Lindsey Hall,senior editor at Tordotcom (the book’s publishers),The Way Spring Arrives and Other Storiesstarted as a project to rid translated Chinese science fiction of its“old boys’ club”feel.In this anthology,editors Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang have picked 17 short sci-fi and fantasy stories,all written within the past five years by Chinese female and gender non-binary authors,widening the English reader’s view of China’s sci-fi scene.The anthology is a voyage through some remarkable and bizarre worlds—a restaurant at the end of the universe,children harvesting stars in the fields of Anhui,a woman carrying a corpse across a strange landscape.Both informative and entertaining,the book ends with two essays on writing and translation in contemporary Chinese literature by Xueting Christine Ni and Rebecca F.Kuang.