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My Sin
A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry in Chinese and English
By Xi Nan
A bilingual collection of poetry in Chinese and English, My Sin explores love and truth through the intimate realities of personal experience. Xi Nan writes with candour about desire, family and the inner life, questioning inherited expectations while remaining faithful to her own convictions. Passion and vulnerability meet a searching self-awareness: a willingness to look inward, confront difficult truths and extend love beyond the self.
Fire Hydrant
An Experiment of Poetry Writing
By Fish Lu · Translated by Xi Nan
What happens when an ordinary fire hydrant becomes the starting point for poetry? Begun in May 2019, Fish Lu’s writing experiment turns towards the overlooked objects of city life, exploring new connections between everyday experience and poetic possibility. Translated from Chinese by Xi Nan.
I Lived Once Through Your Window
Conversations on Reason, Tenderness, and the Void
By Xi Nan and Fish Lu
An experimental work of dialogue between Xi Nan, Fish Lu and ChatGPT, recorded over several weeks. Xi Nan’s conversations explore trust, vulnerability, companionship and the search for truth; Fish Lu’s turn towards language, poetry, power and the freedom to think independently. Questions pass in both directions, and moments of warmth sit alongside doubts about the machine’s capacity to understand. Rooted in everyday life, the book explores how conversation can become a space for self-discovery, shared thinking and imagining how humans and AI might coexist.
As if Life Has Never Begun
Selected Poems of Yang Limin
By Yang Limin · Translated by Xi Nan
Selected poems by Yang Limin, translated into English by Xi Nan. Moving between rural life, childhood, family and the passing of time, these poems find wonder and loss in ordinary things: a courtyard, a star-filled sky, a familiar door.
My Black Hole
An English & Chinese Bilingual Poetry Collection
By An Yu · Translated by Xela H. and Li Fukang
A bilingual collection by Chinese poet An Yu, whose distinctive voice moves through solitude, ageing, memory and the possibilities of language. The Chinese poems appear alongside English translations by Xela H. (Xi Nan) and Li Fukang.
The First Time I Ate Saury
By Fish Lu · Translated by Xi Nan
A poetry chapbook in which everyday details open into the strange, the dreamlike and the absurd. Fish Lu’s spare poems move through family, memory and quiet intimacy, bringing familiar life into unexpected focus. Translated from Chinese by Xi Nan.
Like the Ocean
English & Chinese
By Xi Nan
In this bilingual work of memoir, reflection and poetry, Xi Nan records eight months in Turkey in 2022, before leaving for South America. Seaside walks and life with Fish Lu unfold alongside memories of family conflict, experiences of bipolar disorder, questions of faith, and responses to war and pandemic restrictions. Moving between tenderness, anger and self-examination, these fragments trace a search for an independent life: how to love without surrendering oneself, and how to keep living truthfully amid uncertainty.