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Monsters With No Grandeur or Style Whatsoever: Goodnight Xiaoqing’s “The Shanxiao”

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Unreliable Narrators, Unrealized Stories, and the Unexpected Perils of Hate-Reading

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The Language of Chinese Dreams Is Science Fiction — And Sometimes They’re Nightmares

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A Delicious Layer Cake of Tragedy and Romance: Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

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The Joyful Liberation of True Love: Heaven Official’s Blessing by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

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Screwball Comedy in Translation: The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

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Queer Reading Pleasure: Three Novels by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

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From Now on I’m Taking All of My Storytelling Lessons From This Wild Epic About Love, Loyalty, and Necromancy

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A Guide to Condor Heroes: The Martial Arts Epic That Influenced All Your Faves

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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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