The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction
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The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese Canadian Fiction
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Assembled by Dan K. Woo, who was named a Canadian author to watch by CBC in 2022, the stories in the anthology span a wide variety of Chinese Canadian voices, experiences and styles. The collection has contributions from established writers such Sam Cheuk, Sheung-King and Lydia Kwa; up-and-coming voices such as Isabella Wang and even a story available for the first time in English from Bingji Ye. From the practiced fielding of family questions by young women in a Hong Kong living room to a child's ghost searching for a way to move to the next world to a family living with the unsettling sounds of constant explosions an industrial district on the edges of Beijing, each story is a stunning window into a world new to many North American readers. The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us is a powerful and elegant collection of stories that works to redefine Chinese Canadian writing.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781989496671 |
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| Publisher: | Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, Limited |
| Publication date: | 05/23/2023 |
| Pages: | 160 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.29(d) |
About the Author
Bingji Ye came from Northern China. With majors in international business and economics, she graduated from Hebei University of Economics and Business and University of Alberta. A poet, novelist and educator, Bingji wrote poems and stories for Chinese language media in Canada. Her first novel, The Trap of Yves Saint Laurent Scent, was published by one of China's biggest publishers in 2006. The novel is about romance, conspiracy and commercial war. She has lived in Edmonton, Regina, Ottawa and the Greater Toronto Area with her family.
Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of three poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Vallum and Watch Your Head, among others. They sit on the editorial boards of long con magazine and Room; and currently live on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg (Ottawa, ON) where they co-curate Riverbed Reading Series, run Little Birds Poetry and write collaboratively as part of the poetry collective VII. Find them online @ehjchang and www.ehjchang.com.
Isabella Wang is the author of the chapbook On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press 2019), and her full-length debut, Pebble Swing (Nightwood Editions, 2021). Among other recognitions, she has been shortlisted for Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, The Malahat Review's Far Horizons Contest and Long Poem Contest, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals and three anthologies. She is an editor at Room magazine.
Eddy Boudel Tan writes stories that depict a world much like our own – the heroes are flawed, truth is distorted, and there is as much hope as there is heartbreak. He's the author of two novels: After Elias, a finalist for the ReLit Awards and the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and The Rebellious Tide (Dundurn Press). In 2021, he was named a Rising Star by the Writers' Trust of Canada. His short stories can be found in Joyland, Yolk, Gertrude Press and The G&LR, as well as in Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press). He lives in Vancouver with his husband where he is currently writing his next novel while listening to the language of birds from his balcony.
Yilin Wang (she/they) is a writer, poet and Chinese-English translator who lives on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squalism and Tsleil-Waututh nations (Vancouver, BC). Her writing and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, POETRY, Guernica, Words Without Borders, Malahat Review, Room, CV2 and elsewhere. She is the editor and translator of the forthcoming poetry anthology The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing 2024), which features five modern and contemporary Chinese poets in translation. Yilin has won the Foster Poetry Prize, received an ALTA Virtual Travel Fellowship and been a two-time finalist for the Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and is a graduate of the 2021 Clarion West Writers Workshop.
Sam Cheuk is a Hong Kong-born Canadian author of Love Figures, Deus et Machina and Postscripts from a City Burning. He is currently working on Marginalia, which examines the function, execution and generative potential behind censorship.
Anna Ling Kaye is a writer and editor. She has served as artistic editor at PRISM international and Ricepaper magazines, and guest editor at The New Quarterly. A columnist on CBC Radio, Kaye's fiction has been finalist for the Journey Prize and PEN Canada New Voices Prize, and won the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award. A third-culture kid who grew up in countries across Asia, Kaye now calls Vancouver home.
Sheung-King, Aaron Tang's debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked (Book*hug Press), is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Award, a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC's Canada Reads 2021 and named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by the Globe and Mail. Born in Vancouver, Sheung-King grew up in Hong Kong. His work examines “the interior lives of the transnational Asian diaspora” (Thea Lim, The Nation). He taught creative writing at the University of Guelph and is now the creative writing coach at Avenues: The World School, Shenzhen. His next novel, BATSHIT SEVEN, will be published by Penguin Random House Canada. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Guelph
Lydia Kwa has published two books of poetry and four novels. Her fourth novel, Oracle Bone, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2017 as the first novel in the chuanqi 傳奇 duology. A new version of The Walking Boy was released in Spring 2019 (Arsenal Pulp Press). Her next novel, A Dream Wants Waking, will be published by Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn, in Fall 2023. She lives and works on the traditional, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, known by its colonial name, Vancouver.