1. Excerpts from Solitary Love Letters
(February 2009/Fiction)

by Yuan Qiongqiong, translated by Kevin Hsu Author's Preface [i] A friend said she went to see a pig, and told me a story about that pig. The pig was in a small temple somewhere, and was fost

2. Yuan Qiongqiong
(February 2009/Contributors)

Yuan Qiongqiong has been a prolific author in Taiwan since the 1970s, and is highly acclaimed for her short stories and essays. She also published poetry under the name Zhu Ling, and has written novel

3. Cha: An Asian Literary Journal
(February 2009/Front page)

..., Joey Li, Blair Reeve, Gillian Sze, Eddie Tay, Phoebe Tsang, Brian Urtz, Nicole Wong, Bryan Thao Worra, Xu Xi and Yuan Qiongqiong. Our seventh issue is due out in May 2009. Poet Bob Bradshaw will le...