Explore a captivating collection of contemporary art that blends traditional Chinese themes with modern expression. Created using the simple yet powerful mediums of ink, watercolor, and rice paper, these works reinterpret nature, light, and the delicate beauty of wildlife. Immerse yourself in these poetic depictions of nature’s wonders.

Li Jinghui’s photographs capture the everyday life of the ordinary and the sentimental scenes of the streets in the cities of China with a distinct composition and coloring style.

What the people of Myanmar truly need is both security and administrative intervention from the UN or the global community. If there is little confidence in either the Tatmadaw or the Resistance groups to bring lasting peace to the region, then the responsibility to protect falls upon you. Security and administrative intervention from the UN or the global community is all we ask. This is the most direct way to ensure that we, the people of Myanmar, are not cast aside from this world.

Joy Deng’s poignant and vivid narrative about love, loss, and memory explores the symbolism of flowers, particularly the rosy dipelta and peonies, as the protagonist grapples with the echoes of a past relationship. With themes of grief, nostalgia, and the passage of time, the tale is a meditation on how small moments and details can carry profound emotional weight.

Still feeling out of place at her university, English major Joy meets Nan, the intriguing but divisive girlfriend of her classmate Matt. While Joy's roommate Blair sees through Nan's "liquid gold" persona, Joy remains curious.

In this vivid poem Laura Newbern employs stunning imagery of harsh winters and Orthodox churches that accompany a reminiscent story of childhood.

Zhou Hau Liew’s “Quarantine Hotel” is a lyrical ekphrasis, as if a quarantine hotel were an installation art piece that places participants after the whip and before the lash of a sudden global pandemic, triggering ethereal eidetic imagery across space and time.

Acclaimed American poet, Sarah Arvio is the author of night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis, Sono Cantos, and Visits from the Seventh. Her most recent work is Poet in Spain, a translation of poems and a play by Spanish writer Federico Garćia Lorca.

Before Bernardine moved to Paris in the late spring of 1925, she had socialized regularly with the founders of The New Yorker. In Paris, she had big plans to use her love of the visual and performing arts to bring people together. In 1929, she left everything behind, setting out for Shanghai, where she would begin to write her own story.

Focusing on model Sung Hi Lee, writer Kaila Yu explore how the portrayal of Asian women in pop culture and media of the 1990s and 2000s contributed to the objectification of Asian women and the deep roots of Asian fetish, the repercussions of which still linger today.

Giant Ape by Lu Nei, translated from Chinese by Edward Allen from the 8th edition of TSLR. A short story from within a chapter of Lu Nei’s five-part work Mistwalkers 雾行者, published on Jan 1, 2020.

Sonja Srinivasan’s vivid telling of a senator’s wife taking the train out of D.C, a city founded on freedom, raised on decorum, and bolstered by propriety, for New York.

Chris Song’s translation of Ye Si’s “Amélie in Tuen Mun”. After graduating from high school, Amélie and her classmates moved to the city to seek their fortunes. While some joined Triads, committing robberies, and others took part in the Miss Hong Kong pageant, Amélie found work in a diner.

Criticism editor Carlos Rojas introduces the section's contributions, from global climate change, the Israel-Hamas conflict, the political-economic crisis facing contemporary China, and how we understand failure itself, describing the essays as observations as well as interventions into the phenomena they describe.

Comparative literature scholar Irving Goh focuses on the reality of failure itself. Noting that many scholars working in a burgeoning field that could be called failure studies tend to focus on failure as a path to eventual success, Goh instead proposes that it would also be useful to focus on failure as failure.