Nick AdmussenOh, no, the Hong Kong writer Xi Xi (Sai Sai) has passed away at the age of 85. Here's a short thread by her translator Jennifer Feeley: https://twitter.com/JenniferLFeeley/status/1604308615929610240. Chinese Literature Today has made a special issue on her free to download: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uclt20/8/1. You can read her classic story "A Girl Like Me" for free with an archive.org account here: https://archive.org/details/girllikemeother00xixi/page/n5/mode/2up
And lastly, an excerpt from her forthcoming translated book "Mourning a Breast": https://chajournal.blog/2020/10/24/mourning/. "Communication between people is difficult, but talking to the body is even more challenging. There are so many parts, each with its own grievances, the bodyβs language split into distinct regional dialects. Bones speak the language of bones. Muscles speak the language of muscles. Nerves speak the language of nerves." #ChineseLiterature
