Late Spring

Huang Tongtong has written for the Chinese editions of Vogue, Elle, GQ and Cosmo. In addition to working as a fashion magazine editorial director, she has written fourteen novels and short story collections. Specialising in profiles and interviews, she built a reputation for her concise, passionate, yet warm writing style, which centres the challenges modern Chinese women face in their daily lives. Christopher Payne has co-translated the award-winning novels Decoded and In the Dark by Mai Jia, and along with his frequent collaborator, Olivia Milburn, he’s also brought Jiang Zilong’s magnum opus, Empires of Dust, to an English-language audience. Christopher holds a PhD in Chinese literature from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and he has spent more than a decade teaching at postsecondary institutions, most notably Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, and The University of Manchester in the UK. In 2020 he took up a position at the University of Toronto, where he has continued to champion Chinese literature in the English-speaking world.