Chinese Millennials

Qingxiang Yang ( ) is a poet and literary critic based at Renmin University in Beijing, where he is a professor of literature. He is a recipient of the 8th Lu Xun prize for criticism, and has served on the judge' s panel for the Mao Dun Literature Prize. He has published several poetry collections, and is considered one of the most representative and best-selling poets of his generation. In English, he is the co-editor of The Sound of Salt Forming (University of Hawaii Press, 2016), a collection of translated short stories by `80s generation Chinese writers.

Todd Foley (Translator) holds a PhD in East Asian Studies from NYU, where he teaches courses on Chinese literature, film, and translation. His translations include I Love Bill and Other Stories by Wang Anyi (Cornell University Press, 2023) and Yu Hua s latest novel City of Fiction (Europa Editions, 2025).