Thanks for the kind words, Pedro! The Guo Shuang story is definitely the most approachable language-wise -- a bit long, but engaging and not difficult to follow if you take your time. Added benefit: the whole story is available free online (linked above, just under Guo Shuang's author portrait.)
As for novella-length translations... Part of the reason that novellas have mostly vanished from the Anglophone world these last few decades is that we mostly don't read our fiction in serialized form anymore. But, who knows -- now that we've revived our serial habit on Substack, can the novella make a comeback? I'd love to think that, someday in the future, literary Substacks will offer a route to publication for all the excellent novellas that have gone unpublished and untranslated up till this point...
Thanks for the kind words, Pedro! The Guo Shuang story is definitely the most approachable language-wise -- a bit long, but engaging and not difficult to follow if you take your time. Added benefit: the whole story is available free online (linked above, just under Guo Shuang's author portrait.)
As for novella-length translations... Part of the reason that novellas have mostly vanished from the Anglophone world these last few decades is that we mostly don't read our fiction in serialized form anymore. But, who knows -- now that we've revived our serial habit on Substack, can the novella make a comeback? I'd love to think that, someday in the future, literary Substacks will offer a route to publication for all the excellent novellas that have gone unpublished and untranslated up till this point...