Publisher's Synopsis
Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons gathers sixteen phenomenal writers of the Chinese language in their English debut: eight fiction writers, six poets, and two essayists. Amongst these dazzling tellings, the planets are being pulled closer to the earth; a treasured classical fiction holds the secrets of the universe; shameful acts of urban ennui are committed over- and underground; a couple navigates the phantasmagoric border between life and death; the classrooms of the eighties and nineties are fleetingly free.
Ranging from cityscapes to mountain ranges, ancestral lands to parallel worlds, these authors exhibit a panoramic vista of contemporary Chinese-language writing at its most imaginative and incisive, balancing intellectual power with lyrical enchantment to lend insight into a nation oscillating between tradition and modernity, apocalyptic visions and pedestrian loves, provocation and nostalgia, reality and dreamscapes.
Authors include the leading Chinese contemporary writers: Chen Chuncheng (author of one of the Top Ten Novels of the Year by Asia Weekly), Da Tou Ma, Du Lulu, Fu Wei, Huo Xingjie, Jia Wei, Jiang Li, Li Hongwei, Li Yuan, Mao Jian, San San, Suo Er, and Tan Lin.
