The Home of a Spare Child
by Shen Yang, translated by Julius Kochan | Jul 11, 2024
Read Paper Republic
Read Paper Republic is a free online publication initiative for readers who wonder what new Chinese fiction in English translation has to offer and would like to dip a toe in the water. The stories are organized into series:
Home
A refuge, a recollection, a promised land, a prison; the arms of family, or four concrete walls in the sky… Home means something different to each of us, but it means something to all of us.
At a time when Chinese society is wrestling with generational gaps, real-estate crises, and the outfall of pandemic, we present the following stories and poems as meditations on love and security (or lack thereof).
With illustrations by Brenda Chi
At Night I Rise to Mop the Floor
by Yu Xinqiao, translated by Anne Henochowicz | Jul 4, 2024
One Who Loves Doors Will Always Be Loved
by Huang Xianzhi, translated by Bill Leverett | Jul 1, 2024
At Home
by Zuo You, translated by Xisheng Chen and Chen Du | Jun 20, 2024
The Lost Deer
by Li Tang, translated by Huang Howard | Jun 13, 2024
Notes from the Consulting Room
by Zuo Fei, translated by Dylan Levi King and Yun Qin Wang | Jun 6, 2024
