#week 154

Thank you @youchoseeachother for giving us the opportunity to share your amazing creations this week! 

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Mozi: Book 4, Universal Love III (墨子：卷四兼愛下). 403-221 B.C.E.. Translated by W. P. Mei (1929). 

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Here is week 154.

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

RE: Alone On Thanksgiving? Mad At Your Dad? - lesbianophelia aka @mendontprotectyou

The Bet - amelia_day aka @awhiskeyriver

Home Is Wherever I Am With You, A Mountain Ballad (Mountain Drabbles) - @butrfac14

Katniss Everdeen is Not a Stalker - AULOVE aka @mega-aulover

Three of Hearts - misshoneywell aka @badnovels

This week we are excited to feature as many of @youchoseeachother‘s creations as possible.

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Peony 1 and Peony 2 (牡丹一、牡丹二). Zhang Yirong (张艺蓉). Chinese ink on rice paper. 2017.

Zhang Yirong, born in 1979, is a Chinese artist from Shanxi. She received training in painting at a young age from her father, and later obtained a Master’s in Art degree from Peking University in 2008. After graduating she studied for eight years under artist Liu Dan. 

Zhang practices traditional Chinese ink painting methods, inspired especially by Song Dynasty paintings. She is known for her detailed flower and butterfly paintings, and her work has been featured in museums and exhibits across the world including New York, Moscow, Beijing and Hong Kong. 

Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Lan Samantha Chang (張嵐)

Professor Lan Samantha Chang is the program director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the first female — and Asian-American — to hold the position. Her short stories, novellas, and novels generally center around Chinese-American or Taiwanese-American protagonists who find themselves trapped between two cultures, identities, and eras.

An exploration of distance and broken ties on both a familial and cultural level, Lan Samantha Chang’s Hunger: A Novella and Stories is a haunting collection of stories that capture often tragic snapshots of immigrants’ lives as they settle into a foreign nation; left with only their longing for the grounded, familiar customs of home, they soon find that longing at odds with their desire to give their future children a better life — two ‘hungers’ that linger like ghosts over the novella’s protagonists. 

Maybe in Winter (大约在冬季) by Chyi Chin (齐秦). 1987.

Chyi Chin, born in 1960, is a prominent Taiwanese singer and songwriter. His music is self grouped into two categories: the Wolf period and the Deer period, the transition between the two marked by his conversion to Buddhism in 1992. Maybe in Winter was released with Chyi’s fifth album, Winter Rain (冬雨), part of his Wolf period. The song has since received much recognition, including the Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Award (十大中文金曲奖) in 1988. 

The inspiration behind Maybe in Winter was Chyi’s then lover whom he did not get to see frequently, hence the song’s theme of separation. The song’s title itself is a response to the recurring question “You ask me, when will I return home?”