Issue Eight, fiction Shanghai Literary Issue Eight, fiction Shanghai Literary

Nan by Alyson McDevitt

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.

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“Writing a letter” by Ling Shuhua

Award-winning translator Nicky Harman introduces Chinese modernist woman writer Ling Shuhua (1900-1990) and her story “Writing a letter.” Active in literary and artistic circles of the 1920s and 1930s, Ling Shuhua was unique in having close connections with the Bloomsbury group; she was friends with Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and Vita Sackville-West.

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