The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

A Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy in Translation from a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators

By: Yu Chen, Regina Kanyu Wang

Narrated by: Katharine Chin

From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy.

In The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains, watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom.

Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team, these stories have never before been published in English and represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of Chinese science fiction and fantasy.

Time travel to a winter's day on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection.

Memorable Collection

I am a big fan of chinese science fiction and fantasy fiction and this collection hit all the right buttons of creativity and performance. I enjoy reading from the mind of someone who does not think like me and learning more about the very rich Chinese culture.

Nonsensical stories

The essays are indulgent, a chore to listen to and the stories themselves yield little substance, often coming to an abrupt end. Much better anthologies than this.