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Attires for the new year of 2024 and 2025. Nothing special for 2026.

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.

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

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…)

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

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

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…)

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

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

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-…

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…

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

ISSUE EIGHT OUT NOW | SPITTOONLITMAG.COM

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…

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

Three versions of MODERNIZATION (I made this morning)

congrats to @AccentSociety mentor @shellyxshan on her collection launch! looking forward to her conversation with Simon Shieh via @aaww

@nine_pens @PoetBex @deborahfinding Twice I read the title as “Virgil for the Dead and Dying Girls”, and I was like “What an interesting story! Wish I had made a poem for that!”

Delighted to reveal the cover of @deborahfinding upcoming pamphlet 'Vigils for Dead and Dying Girls'. Join us next Sunday (Nov 5th) for the online launch (Zoom 18:30) - visit the website for more details. Looking forward to sharing this brilliant work with the world! 🌹

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