Beyond Liu Cixin: 5 New Translated Chinese SFF Books

Amidst the fractious international battles for cyberspace, there couldn’t be a better time to remind ourselves that SFF and the imagination have no boundaries. The West is now pretty au fait with Liu Cixin, but it’s often the case with world literature that the few writers who first become known to the West are monumentalised as Symbols representing the entire ecosystem of their othered cultures. Whilst they are undoubtedly important touchstones, I’ve always tried to take Anglophone readers beyond that introduction into the vast depths of China’s SFF universe.

Once I’d decided to look past the likes of Liu Cixin, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, and Jin Yong, knowing that most SFF reportage will dive on their releases in a heartbeat, I was finding a small, but steady stream of amazing works in translation, but still, there is a bewildering array of great SFF from China, all locked behind that great wall of language.

Here are a few great works in translation publishing this year:

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