Books & Literature

Leslie Shang Zhefeng is a photographer based in Shanghai. He was born and raised near Baoji City in Shaanxi Province, Western China. After moving to Chedun, a suburb

When I return to Shanghai, my father is working as a food delivery man. Two years earlier, when he was fifty-nine years old, he’d been hired by an

Time seems to slip by without leaving even the slightest trace on her body. There is no way of guessing her age, but her thin, supple body, glowing

In the years before his stroke, just how many times had her father told a woman he loved her after dating for two or three weeks? He said

They started out as fraternities, the cults. Poorer students wanted strong networks, like the ones boarding school pupils had already. At the start, in the 50s and 60s,

Yun Sheng ‘Otome games are about women writing romance plots designed to please women – paper hubbies and their voice actors are just a conduit to make the

Love Letter on a street bench in a white skirt, with short hair a girl reads a letter a three-ton truck drives past her, off from the city

A cold star breeze,you pass through my eyelashes.Oh settlers of death’s continenthere in my body,oh my ancestors.   Your hopes yellowedas treasuries.Like dusty lampsin ruined templesyour faces silent.

I ought to take a nap and leave the many meanings of a single word lying on my table, or press the single meaning of many words into