I wanted to make my stories, which are inspired by Asian stories, into something fresh, decontextualized - to give them new life as a new kind of fantasy that isn't so cloying and exotic and strange.
The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.
When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.
Because I really love tax, tax topics actually feature quite a lot in my fiction of various lengths. I once wrote a science fiction short story centered around the idea of an alien tax code, and the idea that you can understand a society by parsing its tax code.
Labels like 'Chinese Science Fiction' or 'Western Science Fiction' summarize a vast field of work, all of which are diverse and driven by individual authors, with individual concerns.
