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#TuesdayTales, Editor's Pick, Fiction
FUSION
An East-Meets-West couple squabbles and falls in love over food
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Editor's Pick, Essay, Essay Saturday
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO WANG
A tourist in China causes difficulties for a local man.
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The Ministry of Truth: The Four Books by Yian Lianke
Xenobe Purvis on Chinese novel about totalitarian madness: the third of her Man Booker International Prize reviews.
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A Second Bowl of Jook
Read the winning entry to our “China” flash fiction competition, held jointly last month with Sheffield University’s School of East Asian Studies and the Sheffield Confucius Institute.
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Geoff Kronik Wins Litro & Sheffield University’s “China” Flash Fiction Competition
We apologise for the delay in announcing the results of last month’s “China” flash fiction competition, held jointly with Sheffield University’s Confucius Institute and School of East Asian ...
Excerpt from Scattered Sand: The Story of China’s Rural Migrants
The day before his departure, Xiao Lin spent half a day packing his clothes. His wife Ah Fen insisted that he take his winter jacket – and packets of instant ...
China’s Hidden Workers at Home and Abroad
One of the first things that got me writing about the plight of many Chinese migrants living and working in Britain was the social response to the two most heartbreaking ...
Litro #118: China, Magazine | Archives
Litro #118: China
China is impossible to describe. An ancient civilization, a vast nation, the largest population in the world. All true, but what is it actually like? How can we attempt to ...
Letters from the Editor, Litro #118: China
Litro #118: China—Editors’ Letter
China is impossible to describe. An ancient civilization, a vast nation, the largest population in the world. All true, but what is it actually like? How can we attempt to ...
Disguises
On the night Mrs. Chen got lost, she was wearing a golden amulet of the goddess Kuan Yin underneath her clothes, for protection. She took the subway home from the ...
Autumnal Absences by Fan Zhongyan (989-1052)
A green, cloudy sky; and yellow leaves covering the ground –
there are even autumn colours in the waves.
Over the waves, there hangs an emerald green mist.
Mountains catch ...
Litro #118: China, Travel&Lifestyle
The York Bar
“You want to know why they call me Sugar Daddy?” A slender Chinese man with a pinstripe fedora angled on his head sidles up to Miranda and me, and a ...
Breaking Off in May by Zhang Xian (990-1078)
The frequent sound of the cuckoo
again proclaims the meadow flowers’ passing.
I enjoyed the spring, so pick its last blooms, even more.
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Then the Game Begins
The man who invented Mah Jong is a hero. Yeah, definitely a hero. He saves people’s lives, people like me who have nothing good to count on at night. You ...
River Song by Li Zhiyi (1035-1117)
I live at the head of the long Yangtze.
He lives in its furthest reaches.
I think of him, each day, but we never meet.
The drink we share is ...
Common People by A Yi
Imagine—if you will—that you are a large bird, hovering over the town of Jujiu on 20 April 1998. You would have seen the county’s deputy mayor, Li Yaojun, getting unexpectedly ...
Litro #118: China, Past Events
Listings: September 2012
New St. James Theatre opens in London
St. James Theatre, the first newly built theatre complex in central London in 30 years, will open to the public this month. Rising ...
Litro partners with the University of Sheffield’s Confucius Institute and School of East Asian Studies for “China” flash fiction competition
To celebrate our upcoming China issue, we are holding a similarly-themed flash fiction competition with Sheffield University’s Confucius Institute and School of East Asian Studies.
The theme is “China”. Deadline: 3 October. ...
Jung Chang, Ma Jian and Bi Feiyu on Chinese Literature and Censorship
Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, her own family saga, celebrates its 21st birthday this year. In her interview with PEN at the Fair, when she was asked what it does for her now, reading ...