Archive - Cold Window Newsletter

CWN#8: The best Chinese short fiction of 2025, so far

A summer special edition

Aug 19 •

July 2025

CWN#7.5: Internet genres redux

13 Ways of Looking at Chinese Internet Literature (#5-6)

Jul 13 •

CWN#7: The fractal madness of internet literature genres

13 Ways of Looking at Chinese Internet Literature (#3-4)

Jul 5 •

June 2025

CWN#6.5: A Conversation with Ban Yu

The past and future of "New Dongbei Literature"

Jun 7 •

May 2025

CWN#6: 13 ways of looking at Chinese internet literature // Chronicles of the small-town South

Featuring Lin Sen 林森 and Li Chao 李晁

May 8 •

April 2025

CWN#5.5: An Audiovisual Guide to the Dongbei Renaissance

Welcome back to the Cold Window Newsletter! This is a shorter interim issue to tide you over between my main more-or-less-monthly features. Thanks for…

Apr 17 •

March 2025

CWN#5: Ode to Spittoon // Return to Dongbei

Featuring Zhao Song 赵松 and Zheng Zhi 郑执

Mar 27 •

February 2025

CWN#4: 2024 in short fiction // Mind-bending fiction by literary newcomers

Featuring Niu Jianzhe 牛健哲 and Cui Jun 崔君

Feb 23 •

January 2025

CWN#3: Round-up of round-ups // Suspense stories from China’s best young writers award

Featuring Zheng Xiaolü 郑小驴 and Sun Pin 孙频

Jan 21 •

December 2024

CWN#2: Newly translated horror // Dongbei Renaissance, part 1

Featuring Ban Yu 班宇 and Yang Zhihan 杨知寒

Dec 10, 2024 •

October 2024

CWN#1: Welcome // New stories from Shanghai // Literary deaths of 2024

Featuring Gu Xiang 顾湘 and Wang Zhanhei 王占黑

Oct 20, 2024 •

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