Ouyang Yu

This is supposedly the fictional biography of a street storyteller by the name of Ah Sin, active during the gold-digging days of the 1850s and 1860s in Victoria, Australia. The story is told by Zhang Baohui, a mainland Chinese student working on a PhD thesis in creative writing at Laurendal University, under the supervision of Professor Stacey Ahsin. As Baohui...

'He looked down at his watch and saw that the long hand was overlapping the short, pointing towards twelve. The old year had passed and the new year had begun. He was swept by a feeling of loss and attachment to a past that was no longer there: If I were in China now, I would be...' A father and...

The Sun at Eight or Nine takes one back to the hinterland of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a time of tantrums, political or personal, with the story of a mother and her son that reaches a level of human misery as well as sublimity, rarely seen in this country.