The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories

I loved this anthology so so much! The beautiful intertwining between fanciful yet intelligent fantasy stories and strongly relevant and insightful essays was just a delight to absorb and read over and over again.

The stories in The Way Spring Arrives were all just so masterfully beautiful. Some made me cry, some made me deeply nostalgic, and a few had me in deep thought. The quality and brilliance of the stories only feeds my yearning to study eastern asian languages like Chinese and Japanese, to read what is obscure literature in the western world that would be otherwise out of my reach.

The Way Spring Arrives proved to be a delicious introduction for me to chinese fantasy and science fiction. The inclusion of anglospherically well known writers as translators and their deep knowledge of both chinese and english literature really helps bridge the gap between what is historically two well-alienated yet overflowing worlds of literature. I also appreciated the anthology's exclusivity of female and nonbinary writers. I think that the western world of literature has a lot to learn from this book and its publishing.

The Way Spring Arrives is definitely a book which I could read over and over again, and bring with me someday on a trip to some different world.