Include tags: ancient China Anhui animals Beijing prize:Bing Xin Prize birth blue collar religion:Buddhism prize:Cao Yu Prize for Playwriting censorship prize:China Annual Award for Flash Fiction prize:Chinese Literature Media Award religion:Christianity contemporary crime fiction Cultural Revolution Danwei life religion:Daoism death health:disease and medicine drugs and alcohol dystopian fiction education entrepreneurship environment ethnic minorities experimental gender:feminist film food Fujian prize:Galaxy Award games Gansu gender government life Guangdong Guangxi Guizhou Hainan health Hebei Heilongjiang Henan home life Hong Kong Hubei Hunan Inner Mongolia international internet Interviews religion:Islam Jiangsu Jiangxi Jilin journalism June 4th justice and corruption ethnic minorities:Kazahk language Language prize:Lao She Prize law and crime LGBTQ Liaoning prize:Lu Xun Prize Macau magical realist prize:Mao Dun Prize martial arts memoir health:mental metafiction migration military ethnic minorities:Mongolian multigenerational music myth and fairytale Nanjing nature prize:New Concept Prize prize:Newman Prize for Chinese Literature News and Media News and Media:News Roundup Ningxia old age international:overseas Chinese performing arts Periodical animals:pets health:physical political engagement Post-Revolution poverty prize Publishing Qinghai reading Reform and Opening Up religion Republican Era review romance rural life migration:rural setting school life science and technology science fiction sex Shaanxi Shandong Shanghai Shanxi Sichuan small town life internet:social media sport surrealist Taiwan television The Great Leap Forward thriller Tian'anmen Square/June 4, 1989 Tibet ethnic minorities:Tibetan time travel tomb robbing traditions translation Translations travel and exploration university life University Press urban life migration:urban setting ethnic minorities:Uyghur violence visual arts wealth and finances Website/Online white collar writers and books Xinjiang prize:Yao Xueyin Prize youth and childhood Yunnan Zhejiang prize:Zhuang Zhong Prize
Exclude tags: ancient China Anhui animals Beijing prize:Bing Xin Prize birth blue collar religion:Buddhism prize:Cao Yu Prize for Playwriting censorship prize:China Annual Award for Flash Fiction prize:Chinese Literature Media Award religion:Christianity contemporary crime fiction Cultural Revolution Danwei life religion:Daoism death health:disease and medicine drugs and alcohol dystopian fiction education entrepreneurship environment ethnic minorities experimental gender:feminist film food Fujian prize:Galaxy Award games Gansu gender government life Guangdong Guangxi Guizhou Hainan health Hebei Heilongjiang Henan home life Hong Kong Hubei Hunan Inner Mongolia international internet Interviews religion:Islam Jiangsu Jiangxi Jilin journalism June 4th justice and corruption ethnic minorities:Kazahk language Language prize:Lao She Prize law and crime LGBTQ Liaoning prize:Lu Xun Prize Macau magical realist prize:Mao Dun Prize martial arts memoir health:mental metafiction migration military ethnic minorities:Mongolian multigenerational music myth and fairytale Nanjing nature prize:New Concept Prize prize:Newman Prize for Chinese Literature News and Media News and Media:News Roundup Ningxia old age international:overseas Chinese performing arts Periodical animals:pets health:physical political engagement Post-Revolution poverty prize Publishing Qinghai reading Reform and Opening Up religion Republican Era review romance rural life migration:rural setting school life science and technology science fiction sex Shaanxi Shandong Shanghai Shanxi Sichuan small town life internet:social media sport surrealist Taiwan television The Great Leap Forward thriller Tian'anmen Square/June 4, 1989 Tibet ethnic minorities:Tibetan time travel tomb robbing traditions translation Translations travel and exploration university life University Press urban life migration:urban setting ethnic minorities:Uyghur violence visual arts wealth and finances Website/Online white collar writers and books Xinjiang prize:Yao Xueyin Prize youth and childhood Yunnan Zhejiang prize:Zhuang Zhong Prize
Essay by Zhu Ziqing, translated by Peter Richardson