Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons gathers sixteen phenomenalwriters of the Chinese language in their English eight fictionwriters, six poets, and two essayists. Amongst these dazzling tellings,the planets are being pulled closer to the earth; a treasured classicalfiction holds the secrets of the universe; shameful acts of urbanennui are committed over- and underground; a couple navigates thephantasmagoric border between life and death; the classrooms of theeighties and nineties are fleetingly free.Ranging from cityscapes tomountain ranges, ancestral lands to parallel worlds, these authorsexhibit a panoramic vista of contemporary Chinese-language writingat its most imaginative and incisive, balancing intellectual power withlyrical enchantment to lend insight into a nation oscillating betweentradition and modernity, apocalyptic visions and pedestrian loves,provocation and nostalgia, reality and dreamscapes.