Find this review at Forever Lost in Literature!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 is an imaginative and incredibly creative collection of stories from a fantastic array of Chinese authors. This is a magical, enlightening, and entertaining collection of stories that have so much heart in them and that are simply filled to the brim with imagination. Since there are so ma...

I wish all short story collections could be assembled with this much care and enthusiasm.Is every story perfect? Perhaps not, but the overall curation is excellent.

The Way Spring Arrives is a fascinating collection of Chinese SFF in translation that also includes several essays from the translators. Everyone who worked on this project is female or non-binary and from the essays we come to understand the major significance of centering female and NB voices in Chinese literature where traditionally they had little to no representation. As with any anthology, some of the stories were stronger than others, though every one of the non-fiction essays was excelle...

I won this book in a goodreads drawing.It's a nice collection of speculative fiction by Chinese authors. Some of them were pretty good, but several of them I just didn't get. If you're looking for something different, this might be for you.

I enjoyed every story and essay in this collection. Full RTC

Read some and listened to some on audio. A mixed bag of stories with a handful of essays tossed in. Standouts: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, The Way Spring Arrives, and Dragonslaying

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4.5 STARSGeneral thoughts first, content warnings are included in each short story or essay's mini review. This anthology includes stories about so many different themes and topics, so many different approaches to story telling and accentuating various aspects. I'm sure there is something for everybody within this collection, which also includes some very insightful essays on translation and female and nonbinary Chinese writers in general. A few stories were inspired by folklore and Chinese myth...

rf kuang translated the cover story and contributed an essay and the cover is just drop-dead GORGEOUS. anyways, y'all can have my soul.tor calls this anthology "a collection of Chinese sff, written, edited, & translated by women & nonbinary creators."

This collection is stunning. I can think of no better anthology to read during the month of March, as we welcome spring in the northern hemisphere and celebrate Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. Seventeen speculative fiction short stories and five essays, all written, translated, and curated by women and nonbinary authors challenging gender norms in Chinese science fiction. It’s always hard to review an anthology with so many valuable pieces. As with any anthology, there were

*ARC received in exchange for an honest review*This is a brilliant collection of short stories and essays, unlike anything I’ve read before. I was drawn to the stunning cover and incredible subtitle (a visionary team of female and non-binary creators, heck yes!!), and having previously only read one of the authors, R.F. Kuang, I was excited to discover some new contemporary fantasy/sci-fi writers. Throughout the 22 chapters, I was taken on poignant and existential journeys through new planets an...

As the subtitle states, The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories is a short story anthology of speculative fiction stories translated from Chinese "From a Visionary Team of Female and Nonbinary Creators". The stories span a wide variety of speculative from myth retellings to science fiction. As with such anthologies often the case, there were some stories I liked more than others but all stories had me throughout engaged and introduced me to writers I had not read before.But what I really loved

a very fun collection! a very wide sampling of fantasy and sci-fi concepts from contemporary chinese authors (all, i believe, are 21st century publications). 'dragonslaying' stands out for being conceptually meatier than some of its peers, but even seemingly simple ones ('the woman carrying a corpse,' 'the way spring arrives') are often very delightful. i think for the intended audience of this collection, the essays are a very solid add and a great introduction to thinking about translation and...

Average Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.4After enjoying quite a few translated collections of Chinese SFF short stories, I was very very excited for this one since it was first announced. And I was ecstatic when I got the arc to read. This was definitely more fun among all the collections I’ve read before and I loved how we got a mix of genres like hard sci-fi, a bit of fantasy, some contemporary, thoughtful dystopia, a historical lens and even some xianxia influences. I think the only thing I missed was havin...

We’re getting two different collections of translated short story collections within a single year! What a blessed time to be Chinese diaspora. The Way Spring Arrives covers a broad array of topics, from hard sci-fi stories like ‘A Brief History of Beinakan Disasters as Told in a Sinitic Language’, more traditional xianxia style works like ‘The Tale of Wude’s Heavenly Tribulation’, and stories that seamlessly blend the two together.My personal favorites of this collection both fall under the las...

4.5 stars ROUNDED UP ASIAN FEMALE AND NONBINARY CREATORS ARE THE RIGHTFUL HEIRS TO THE SCI-FI/FANTASY THRONE. THE WAY SPRING ARRIVES IS THEIR CORONATION CEREMONY. Thank you to all the folks who contributed to this collection of short stories and essays. As part of the Asian diaspora, this is the kind of book I demand more of and find the greatest joy in reading. My notes on each short story/essay: The Stars We Raise: - ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5- Captivating and strangely beautiful. Baby star-creatures that grow in...

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3.5 as an overall collection because of a few stories that didn’t catch my interest at all, but most the individual stories get 4 stars from me.

I won an ARC from the publisher, but this does not impact my review. I'm going to DNF, after pushing myself to keep reading. This collection had some interesting concepts and thought provoking essays. However there are stories I didn't understand, which could be because I'm unfamiliar with Chinese sci-fi literature. This was different then the kind of sci-fi I'm used to reading. Ultimately I couldn't relate to the characters or find something in the writing to make me want to read more.I would r...

This is a great collection of SFF by women and nonbinary writers translated by women and nonbinary translators. I'm so glad necessary books like this are being translated into English. Stories vary quite a bit, from contemporary fantasies where stars are pets to ancient mythological worlds of shapeshifting foxes to alien invasions and dystopias where dragons are slaughtered. I love the variety and vastness of the selection, though sometimes it was overwhelming to listen to on audio back to back,...