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An anthology of unsettling tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the very first time.

Fourteen dazzling horror stories delve deep into the psyche of modern China in this new anthology curated by acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting C. Ni, editor and translator of the British Fantasy Award-winning Sinopticon.…

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1 author picked Sinophagia as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is an exquisitely-arrayed anthology of translated contemporary Chinese horror and has a hearty share of corpses, self-harm, graphic violence, torture, and all manner of physical and psychological abuse.

It’s a culturally immersive miscellany that draws attention to marginalised humans and non-humans in subversive activism that breaks a circle of silence through clever use of mythology, folklore, and superstition.

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