Mike Fu is a writer, translator, and editor based in Japan. His Chinese-to-English translation of Stories of the Sahara, by Sanmao, was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the Paris Review and shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Prose. He is a cofounder and former translation editor of the Shanghai Literary Review and a PhD candidate at Waseda University.
The author describes how a “heady concoction” of East Asian cinematic stories inspired his own work as a storyteller.As a young adult, Chinese-language films became something of a lifeline to…
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