Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. Asian Studies. Edited by Henry YH Zhao, Yanbing Chen, John Rosenwald. "Fissures - the title of this collectionàsuggestsàthe outward manifestation of an irreversible process. Splits becoming visible on the surface are either advantage signals of a new dispensation taking shape, or the result of a center no longer being able to hold the accumulated weight and wear of timeà In these pages we encounter a wide variety of descriptions of inner and outer lives, of communal life, of history affecting the social and physical environment (without events being capitalized as History), but with nearly no moralizing and little attempt at suggesting how it could be different" - from the foreword by Breyten Breytenbach. "This anthology is a window into the minds and lives of some of the world's finest young writers" - Gary Snyder. Contributors include Bei Doa, Duo Duo, Hu Dong, and Chen Dongdong, among others.