A review by rmtbray
Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China by Ra Page, Carol Yinghua Lu, Liu Ding

challenging informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.0

One surprisingly regressive Guardian review complains that the short stories in this collection "deny us any of the themes we might expect from China; children are not an issue here, nor factory life, and only one story touches on social organisation." What tosh - I read books by foreign authors to discover their ideas and opinions, not to have my own stereotypes reinforced. As with any collection by a variety of authors, some of the stories I liked more than others, and overall I'm glad I picked the collection up.