Issue 22 – June 2018 China Transnational | Mascara Literary Review

Mascara Literary Review

Issue 22 – June 2018 China Transnational

Courtesy Eli Klein, © Geng Xue

Edited by Michelle Cahill, Nicholas Jose, Shirley Le

Australian Government | Australia Council for the Arts

Editorial

Poetry

Michelle Cahill

Janet Jiahui Wu

A.J. Carruthers

Featured Writer

Dorothy Tse translated by Natascha Bruce

Fiction

Washing Day by Elizabeth Tan

Apophlegms by Brian Castro

The Aid Worker by Martin Kovan

Little Red Book by May Ngo

Silent Country by Lynda Ng

Flash Fiction

The Cup by Xiaoshuai Gou

Childhood Surprise by Wanling Liu

Motive by HC Hsu

Creative Non-fiction

Identity Handover by Sanaz Fotouhi

Multimedia

Carielyn Tunion

Interviews

Chinese Science Fiction Beyond Politics — An Interview with Hao Jingfang, Author of Folding Beijing Translated by Emily Yu Zong

Translations

Isabelle Li translates Zheng Xiaoqiong

Debbie Lim translates Luo Lingyuan

Yunhe Huang translates Fan Zhongyan & Li Qingzhao

Debbie Lim translates an interview with Luo Lingyuan

Reviews/Essays

Ravi Shankar reviews Empty Chairs by Liu Xia

Christine Sun reviews The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi

Nicholas Jose reviews Lunar Inheritance by Lachlan Brown

Visions of China: Ouyang Yu’s Translations of Contemporary Chinese Poetry by Tina Giannoukos

Paul Giffard-Foret reviews Middle of the Night by HC Hsu

On Exile-Inner and Outer: A Tibetan Odyssey; Martin Kovan reviews Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Genre of The Poison of Polygamy by Qiuping Lu

A.J. Carruthers reviews Experimental Chinese Literature by Tong King Lee

Peter Gibson reviews Encounters with Asian Decolonisation by David Fettling

Jenevieve Chang reviews Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

Billy Sing: A failed Transnational Hero by Beibei Chen

Jennifer Mackenzie reviews Bella Li’s Argosy and Lost Lake

Martin Kovan reviews Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds: Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar

Programs & Events

2019 Varuna Mascara Western Sydney Writers Fellowship