My translation of ADRIFT IN THE SOUTH, the debut memoir of Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai 小海, out with Granta Magazine Editions today.
A landmark work of the migrant worker literature movement, it showcases one of China’s liveliest emerging voices.
#XiaoHai #chineseliterature #translatedliterature
Really delighted by this essay on nuclear weapons by Tong Zhao on the costs of secrecy, past and present.
Or should I say "chuffed" @samuelwa.de (though I've never heard you say that I don't think???)
chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/07/t...
a good rule of thumb: if an essay uses euphemism to endorse actions they are unwilling to describe, it's shit writing.
I propose DC solve its budget shortfall by impounding and auctioning off all cars with license plate covers
The President is wandering the White House gluing coins to doors?!
Dusted off the writing cap for a...listicle! Five new china books, an eclectic bunch that pretty much sums up my reading interests... hope they interest you too!
chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/28/n...
I don't know which irks me more, the stupidity or the depravity.
Really astounding conversation. The stupidity and, frankly, depravity is just unbelievable.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/o...
It's an impressive piece of organizing, but is it really so objectionable that this parking lot next to a substation be turned into a data center? It's already an industrial lot?
Are there any health downsides to data centers other than noise pollution, which of course is very annoying?
D.C. is failing kids like Jahari Alford — in the space of one week, he (a 10-year-old!) was robbed at gunpoint & intentionally run over by an ATV gang. Unbelievable, and so grim.