Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons gathers sixteen phenomenal

writers of the Chinese language in their English debut: eight fiction

writers, six poets, and two essayists. Amongst these dazzling tellings,

the planets are being pulled closer to the earth; a treasured classical

fiction holds the secrets of the universe; shameful acts of urban

ennui are committed over- and underground; a couple navigates the

phantasmagoric border between life and death; the classrooms of the

eighties and nineties are fleetingly free.

Ranging from cityscapes to

mountain ranges, ancestral lands to parallel worlds, these authors

exhibit a panoramic vista of contemporary Chinese-language writing

at its most imaginative and incisive, balancing intellectual power with

lyrical enchantment to lend insight into a nation oscillating between

tradition and modernity, apocalyptic visions and pedestrian loves,

provocation and nostalgia, reality and dreamscapes.