{"id":1014,"date":"2012-07-06T09:10:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2012-07-06T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T01:10:24","slug":"jennifer-feeley-on-flash-fiction-from-contemporary-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Feeley on Flash Fiction from Contemporary China"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"200\"<\/a>Modern Chinese Literature & Culture<\/em> has just published Jennifer Feeley’s review of\u00a0The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China<\/em><\/a>, edited by Shouhua Qi<\/a> \u7941\u5bff\u534e. While there’s a discussion to be had about the relationship, or difference, between flash fiction and prose poetry, Qi’s anthology doesn’t seem to engage in that point (and for what it’s worth, I’d say that Xi Chuan’s prose poems <\/a>are closer to “flash nonfiction,” anyway). Here’s how Feeley begins her review:<\/p>\n

In an age of diminishing attention spans, stories that can be read in the few minutes it takes to wait for the bus, stand in line, or smoke a cigarette are valued for their ability to entertain on demand. Mobile technologies such as text messaging and micro-blogging on cell phones and tablets spur both the production and consumption of this economic genre\u2014the shortest of these works can be contained within a single computer screen or a few text messages. Flash fiction (\u5fae\u578b\u5c0f\u8bf4), or short-short fiction, is by no means a recent phenomenon, however. Shouhua Qi, editor and translator of The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China<\/em>, traces its multiple origins thousands of years back to Aesop’s fables from ancient Greece and the Chinese creation myths of N\u00fcwa, Fuxi, and Pangu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Modern Chinese Literature & Culture has just published Jennifer Feeley’s review of\u00a0The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction From Contemporary China, edited by Shouhua Qi \u7941\u5bff\u534e. While there’s a discussion to be had about the relationship, or difference, between … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,3,16,7],"tags":[597,596,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-gm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4611,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4611","url_meta":{"origin":1014,"position":0},"title":"\u201cTiananmen Thirty Years On\u201d feature at Cha","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cTiananmen Thirty Years On\u201d at Cha Announcing the June\/July issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, the \u201cTiananmen Thirty Years On\u201d feature, edited by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho and Lucas Klein, along with a special feature of poems by and in mourning of Meng Lang \u5b5f\u6d6a. 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