末日 (lit. Doomsday)
Short story by Han Shaogong.
Translations:
Doomsday
Translated by Bruce Humes, May, 2013
Comical look at frenzy that ensues in a Chinese village when the inhabitants mistakenly assume that the village chief has brought news of an impending earthquake.
Published in the English-language literary magazine, Pathlight (Issue Spring 2013).