In Shanghai, you rarely have the opportunity to intrude into someone’s genuine private space, especially when she is a writer. But when we hesitated about where to grab a drink on a Saturday night at 8 PM, Sansan eagerly suggested we could go to her place. "I'

Yang Zhihan doesn’t quite fit the mold of a typical “Northeastern writer.” Born in 1994, she left Northeast China at the age of eighteen, and this year marks her twelfth year living in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Parts of the plot in her novels are born from “time-travel moments” where, while

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