China stories
The London Book Fair welcomes the world's biggest publisher by volume this month, with China selected as the 2012 Market Focus. The Guardian's China stories series presents new English translations of short stories from the most exciting writers working in China today.
Chinese jet's encounter with US surveillance aircraft over South China Sea – video
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Dragonworld by Zhang Xinxin, translated by Helen Wang
Zhang Xinxin – accompanied by her teenage alter-ego Zhaishao – investigates the source of an invasion in Dragonworld, translated by Helen Wang
The Curse by A Yi, translated by Julia Lovell
The loss of a chicken brings simmering village tensions to the boil in this story from A Yi, translated by Julia Lovell
Galloping Horses by Xu Zechen, translated by Helen Wang
Soybean dreams of riding one of the horses which gallop along the road in front of the melon shack in this story by Xu Zechen, translated by Helen Wang
Old Man Xinjiang by Xue Mo, translated by Nicky Harman
It's time for Old Man Xinjiang to head home, but not before he's been to see 'her'. Xue Mo reflects on the ebb and flow of life in the Chinese countryside in this story translated by Nicky Harman
Can short fiction take us to China?
The Accident by Murong Xuecun, translated by Harvey Thomlinson
