Poet, translator, editor.

Joined March 2022
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Jan 3
Attires for the new year of 2024 and 2025. Nothing special for 2026.
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4 Jun 2025
My essay “Genuine Country Folk” translated by Ana P. Fornieles will be published by Shanghai Literary Review. If you’re weary of “forty years of electric life and twenty years of electronic life in China”(in my words) , you’d like to step back and explore what came before.
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10 May 2025
Zuo Fei reads her poem, 'The Poet's Lover' for the Proverse Spring Recep... youtu.be/udHAEQRgIns?si=FEPa…
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1 Jan 2025
I’m honored to have received first place in the 2024 Proverse Poetry Prize for my poem, “The Poet’s Lover”. Big thanks to the translator Simon Shieh. (youtu.be/gStOq9aEAQ0?si=V_lA…)
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21 Dec 2024
The anthology of new Chinese writing will come out in January. In collaboration with Honford Star. Pre-orders are now open on Amazon.
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15 Dec 2024
Old footage of our mag: Spittoon Literary Magazine, a window into contemporary Chinese writing.
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28 Nov 2024
Honored to have received first place in the 2024 Proverse Poetry Prize for my poem, “The Poet’s Lover”. Big thanks to the translator Simon Shieh. (youtu.be/gStOq9aEAQ0?si=V_lA…)

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22 Oct 2024
Ha, good point. Here’s the good old hard Bell Tower of Beijing.
21 Oct 2024
It's a fight I'll never win, but fuck it: "Beijing" is not pronounced "Bay-zheeng" with that soft, vaguely French consonant. It's pronounced just like aging, paging, raging, and waging, but with a B. The J is like jingle bells, jingoism. Good old hard J.
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12 Oct 2024
Here’s the poem “Crying in a Public Restroom” published last year in Mingled Voices 8 by Proverse HK.
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30 Jul 2024
Just had a wonderful conversation with Nicky Harman and Emily Jones from Paper Republic, Dr. Kan Qian from the Online Confucius Institute of Open University (UK), Dylan Levi King, one of the translators, and the readers. Find the recording here. confucius-institute.open.ac.…
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17 Jun 2024
My story “Notes from the Consulting Room” has been accepted by Read Paper Republic, an online publication initiative. Big thanks to the translators Yun Qin Wang and Dylan Levi King. paper-republic.org/pubs/read…
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21 Mar 2024
Spittoon Literary Magazine. Issue 8 vs Issue 4. In between are the years that transcended the world and us!
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ZF retweeted
ISSUE EIGHT OUT NOW | SPITTOONLITMAG.COM
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3 Mar 2024
I just had a book launch in English this week. Looking forward to making the whole book into English for anyone who’s interested in learning about China’s forty years’ of electric life and twenty years of electronic life. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/x7Faee02X…
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10 Feb 2024
Interviewed by the founder of Spittoon, Matthew Byrne, in May 2022.
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11 Nov 2023
Three versions of MODERNIZATION (I made this morning)
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congrats to @AccentSociety mentor @shellyxshan on her collection launch! looking forward to her conversation with Simon Shieh via @aaww
On November 9, join us in celebrating debut poets @shellyxshan & @shieh_simon, and the co-launches of their respective collections: Shan’s "then telling be the antidote," and Shieh's "Master." ✨🌹 RSVP at aaww.org/curation/in-person-…!
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30 Oct 2023
Got the book Master, a poetry collection by Simon Shieh.
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4 Oct 2023
Eventually released is my book in Chinese, The Reaper 《割芦苇的人》, a collection of essays. Here’s the contents part arranged as in ancient times. The title reminds you of the grim reaper? A reader said it’s reminiscent of Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper. What a surprise!
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