La revue semestrielle Jentayu (ISSN 2426-2536) est dédiée à la traduction de textes courts ou d’extraits de roman. À chaque numéro, entre douze et quinze textes provenant d’une variété de pays et de régions d’Asie sont sélectionnés sur un thème donné et traduits par des traducteurs chevronnés. Pour certains de ces textes, ils sont aussi mis en contexte sur le site internet par le biais d’un entretien avec l’auteur, le traducteur, ou d’une présentati...

Under the pale glow of dawn, Xue Xian--once a mighty dragon, now a handmade paper effigy--is moments away from being exorcised. The worst part? He doesn't see it coming. Spellbound into his form alongside the ever-irritating Jiang Shining--a restless ghost caught up in the dragon's misfortunes--the two must navigate a perilous path to settle long-standing scores.Enter Xuanmin, an enigmatic monk drawn to the ruins of Jiang Manor by the lingering traces of a sinister curse. Finding two crude...

The egotistical dragon Xue Xian and the memory-wiped monk Xuanmin are still stuck together--and so are the many mysteries trailing in their wake. Their ghostly companion, Jiang Shining, seeks peace for his departed parents, but first he must find the last of his living kin. Meanwhile, Lu Nianqi, now empowered and burning for answers, is determined to uncover the truth behind the deadly tomb on Fentou Island that took his brother's life.The party's quest takes a bizarre turn when they hitch...

With the elusive sorcerer's name finally in hand, Xue Xian and Xuanmin should be close to reaching their goal. But something between them has shifted--something neither can ignore. As the final seals on Xuanmin's mysterious copper coins begin to crack, long-buried memories surface, altering the course of their journey.Just as Xue Xian starts to think he might want to keep Xuanmin at his side, fate hurls them into a deadly chase through a nightmarish cave crawling with colossal insects. Yet...

In 'How the Ceremony Ends', it was last winter that the folklorist paid his visit to the village of Eight Pines. He wanted to collect folk tales and customs, to re-enact the ceremonies of life and death that only old men still remember. But somehow he managed to provoke the villagers.In 'The Water Demon', at the beginning, no-one noticed the little girl on the bridge. No-one knew what she was doing; she just stood and watched. She would call out loudly, 'Here comes the water demon!...

Sullo sfondo di una opulenta metropoli del sud, in cui si può riconoscere la cosmopolita ed esuberante Shanghai, le due prostitute Qui Yi e Xiao E, protagoniste del romanzo, vengono arrestate dalle guardie rosse e confinate in un campo di lavoro per la "rieducazione", in quanto non in linea con il tono austero del regime comunista. Ma il Partito non riuscirà a imporre loro la sua "salvezza", quella salvezza che non ammette repliche, che non lascia scampo...

It was rare for the people from Wangbao to come down from their mountain village, but one spring, they arrive in town with sensational news - a virgin birth. What's more, there is something very odd about the baby - he is as big as a child of three, black all over and missing a finger. The villagers whisper that he is the thunder god's son, but back in town, the local doctor knows something he is too afraid to tell.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously publi...

Disgraced Secretary Ku has been banished from the Party - it has been officially proved he does not have a fish-shaped birthmark on his bottom and is therefore not the son of a revolutionary martyr, but the issue of a river pirate and a prostitute. Mocked by the citizens of Milltown, Secretary Ku leaves the shore for a new life among the boat people on a fleet of industrial barges. Refusing to renounce his high status, he maintains a distance - with Dongliang, his teenage son - from the go...

The madwoman was wearing a white velvet cheongsam. Standing on the bridge, she revelled in her own faded splendour. Normal people pay no attention to madwomen, but one woman from Shaoxing stayed on the bridge that afternoon to talk to this one; what was she coveting?Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

You don't expect some guy making small talk on a train to turn into a real friend, but that was just the kind of friend Papa Qi was. And afterwards, Saturday became Papa Qi's visiting day. Every Saturday.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.`

Weeping Willow was a place that survived by serving long-distance drivers, with petrol, food and girls. The truck driver was badly shaken as he arrived there in the dark and rain, but more shaken when he left.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Madwoman on the Bridge.

In 'Dance of Heartbreak', something happened to a young boy in Grade 4, at Red Flag Elementary School; but even today the whole affair remains fresh in his mind. He'd never met another girl like her; she was a little child of glass, beautiful in her sorrow when she ran to centre stage. For him, she was an archetype.In 'The Diary for August', the inspector looked at the suspect who had been brought in for the incident at the city wall. He was fourteen or fifteen, dripping wet from t...