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The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories by Regina Kanyu Wang, Yu Chen
3 reviews
talonsontypewriters's review against another edition
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death, Bullying, Dementia, Sexism, Death, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Misogyny
Minor: Alcohol, Animal death, Genocide, Sexual harassment, Suicide, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Cancer, Terminal illness, and Pregnancy
maeverose's review
I read about half of the stories/essays, and just wasn’t really feeling them. I also didn’t understand a lot of them, but that could be a me problem. Here are the ones that I liked the most:
The Restaurant At The End of the Universe: Tai-Chi Mashed Taro by Anna Wu translated by Carmen Yiling
The Restaurant At The End of the Universe: Tai-Chi Mashed Taro by Anna Wu translated by Carmen Yiling
4⭐️ I liked the vibes. Curious about the hitchhiker’s guide references in the beginning.
Minor cw for suicide
The Alchemist of Lantian by BaiFanRuShuang translated by Ru-Ping Chen 3.5⭐️
Cw: illness
Essay: Translation As Retelling: An Approach To Translating Gu Shi’s “To Procure Jade” and Ling Chen’s “The Name of the Dragon” by Yilin Wang
The Alchemist of Lantian by BaiFanRuShuang translated by Ru-Ping Chen 3.5⭐️
Cw: illness
Essay: Translation As Retelling: An Approach To Translating Gu Shi’s “To Procure Jade” and Ling Chen’s “The Name of the Dragon” by Yilin Wang
3.5⭐️ cool to see the process behind translating a story.
The Name of the Dragon by Ling Chen translated by Yilin Wang
The Name of the Dragon by Ling Chen translated by Yilin Wang
3.5⭐️
Cw: death, violence, blood, injury
To Procure Jade by Gu Shi translated by Yilin Wang
3.5⭐️
Cw: blood
New Year Painting, Ink and Color on Rice Paper, Zhaoqiao Village by Chen Qian translated by Emily Xueni Jin
New Year Painting, Ink and Color on Rice Paper, Zhaoqiao Village by Chen Qian translated by Emily Xueni Jin
3.5⭐️
Cw: missing child, bullying, fire, death
I will say I was kind of expecting more actual non binary representation, I didn’t really see much of that. Also curious how many of the contributors are non binary because all but two use exclusively she/her, and of course pronouns ≠ gender (I’m a genderless she/her after all), but it still doesn’t seem very diverse within the non binary category (And for the two who used she/they, in their bios they only used she/her.. 🤔 to be fair idk if an editor wrote the bios or if everyone wrote their own, I assumed an editor).
Cw: missing child, bullying, fire, death
I will say I was kind of expecting more actual non binary representation, I didn’t really see much of that. Also curious how many of the contributors are non binary because all but two use exclusively she/her, and of course pronouns ≠ gender (I’m a genderless she/her after all), but it still doesn’t seem very diverse within the non binary category (And for the two who used she/they, in their bios they only used she/her.. 🤔 to be fair idk if an editor wrote the bios or if everyone wrote their own, I assumed an editor).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, and Violence
Moderate: Abandonment, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Terminal illness
Minor: Suicide and Fatphobia
Manipulation, missing childnorthernzephyr's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gore, Child abuse, and Child death
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