by Lindsay Shen Jason Wee, An Epic of Durable Departures, Math Paper Press, 2018. 85 pgs. Jason Wee’s Epic of Durable Departures is convincing argument that the choice to liveContinue readingJason Wee’s An Epic of Durable Departures

by David Haysom Can Xue (author), Annelise Finegan Wasmoen (translator), Love in the New Millennium, Yale University Press, 2018. 288 pgs. Talking about the plot of a Can Xue novelContinue readingDelightful Absurdities: Can Xue’s Love in the New Millennium

by Susan Blumberg-Kason Stephen Davies, Strong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club, City University of Hong Kong Press, 2017. 450 pgs. OverContinue readingStrong to Save: Maritime Mission in Hong Kong, from Whampoa Reach to the Mariners’ Club

by Emma Zhang Zak Dychtwald, Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World, St. Martin’s Press, 2018. 304 pgs. Zak Dychtwald’s Young China: How theContinue readingBrave New China: Zak Dychtwald’s Young China: How the Restless Generation Will Change Their Country and the World

by Marsha McDonald Leanne Dunic, To Love the Coming End, Chin Music Press, 2017. 98 pgs. Leanne Dunic’s first novel, To Love the Coming End, follows a nameless British ColumbianContinue readingRemains Of: Leanne Dunic’s To Love the Coming End

by Aakriti Kuntal Kiriti Sengupta, Rituals, Hawakal Publishers, 2019. 100 pgs. Rituals, Kiriti Sengupta’s newest collection of poems, dangles between the living and the non-living, real and imaginary, and createsContinue readingEthereal Algorithms of Life: Kiriti Sengupta’s Rituals

Henrik Hoeg, Away with Words: Poetry and Translations, CreateSpace, 2018. 122 pgs. Away With Words: Poems and Translations by Henrik Hoeg is the author’s second book, his first being IrreverentContinue readingGetting into an Argument with Away with Words: Poems and Translation by Henrik Hoeg

by David W. Landrum Mao Xiang (author), Jan Fang and Lifang He (translators), The Romance of a Literatus and his Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China, Proverse, 2019. 224 pgs. Mao Xiang,Continue readingLove Among the Ruins: The Romance of a Literatus and his Concubine in Seventeenth-Century China

by Jennifer Anne Eagleton Wayne Ng, Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu, Earnshaw Books, 2018. 280 pgs. Finding the Way is a bold novel. It takes courage toContinue readingWayne Ng’s Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu

by Susan Blumberg-Kason Frank Langfitt, The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China, Public Affairs, 2019. 321 pgs. In May of this year, IContinue readingWhen Past and Present Merge: Frank Langfitt’s The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China

by Henrik Hoeg Joshua Ip, footnotes on falling, Math Paper Press, 2018. 70 pgs. Writing a review of a poetry collection feels like the contemporary version of shouting into theContinue readingWhy and How to Read Joshua Ip’s footnotes on falling

by Emma Zhang Kai-Fu Lee, AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. 272 pgs. In his 2018 book AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, andContinue readingTechno Dystopia: Ka-Fu Lee’s AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Akin Jeje Karen Kao, The Dancing Girl and the Turtle, Linen Press, 2017. 245 pgs. Karen Kao’s debut novel, the first of what is to be her Shanghai Quartet,Continue readingKaren Kao’s The Dancing Girl and the Turtle

by Kathy Yanbin Cai Mingwei Song and Theodore Huters (editors), The Reincarnated Giant: Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction, Columbia University Press, 2018. 448 pgs. Recently, I have been noticing more discussion ofContinue readingA Chinese New-Wave of Science Fiction: The Reincarnated Giant: Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction

by Tom Marling Anna Wang, Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After, Purple Pegasus, 2019. 396 pgs. The regularity with which readersContinue readingPleasantly Inconsequential Insights: Anna Wang’s: Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After

“City Issue: Hong Kong”, edited by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, World Literature Today, Volume 93 No. 2, University of Oklahoma Press, Spring 2019. With self-awareness comes constant wondering what other peopleContinue readingSeeing a City Through Words: The Hong Kong Issue of World Literature Today

by Sumit Ray Sumana Roy, Out of Syllabus: Poems, Speaking Tiger Books, 2019. 136 pgs. Sumana Roy’s first poetry collection, Out of Syllabus, is the culmination of years of writingContinue readingA Writer of Rare Sensitivity: Sumana Roy’s Out of Syllabus: Poems

by Isabelle Lim Philip Holden (editor), Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins, Ethos Books, 2018. 216 pgs. In his introduction to Hook and Eye, editor Philip Holden describes his collectionContinue readingPeripheral Visions: Hook and Eye: Stories from the Margins

by May Huang Mi Jialu (author), Jennifer Feeley, Matt Turner, Haiying Weng, Lucas Klein, Michael Day, and Feng Yi (translators), Deep Breaths: Collected Poems of Mi JIalu 1981-2018, Showwe Press,Continue readingSongs of the Seasons: Mi Jialu’s Deep Breaths