劉曉藝

紐約的小程式師王齊（王七），與他的大學同學張孝光（張大），李靖乾（李三）三人在紐約過著"百分之五十已完成"的單身生活，遊戲人生中，他也渴望著愛情。王七的大學單相思發生在軍訓之初，對方是他美麗的女輔導員常廣寒。在一個軍訓事故中常廣寒開槍打傷了排長付嚴的手臂，而後者在療傷過程也對她產生了戀慕之情。常廣寒在與同校教師、未婚夫尚之聖結婚的前一天，失望於愛情而自殺身亡。
 
事隔多年，王齊在紐約的一個舊貨市場，因尋購物《聊齋》一書而巧遇清代文學家蒲松齡老先生，在中秋那晚的夢中，他被渡入了《聊齋志異》的仙境，經歷了一程狂歡的月宮之旅。
 
一覺夢醒，王齊又回到了紐約的平凡人生，而他周圍朋友們的生活中，正在發生著激烈的愛情錯位......

Small-time New York programmer Wang Qi (Wang the Seventh) and his college classmates Zhang Xiaoguang (Big Zhang), and Li Jingqian (Li the Third) are "fifty percent done" with the single life in New York. Yet in the game that is life, he still yearns for love. Wang Qi's unrequited college love began during his military training, in the form of the beautiful advisor Chang Guanghan. During the training, Chang accidentally shoots and injures the shoulder of the platoon leader, Fu Yan, who later, during his recuperation develops feelings of loving admiration towards her. The day before she is to be married to her fiancé, Shang Zhisheng, a faculty at the same school, Chang, who is disappointed in love, takes her own life.
 
Years later, Wang Qi stumbles across a copy of the book "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio," by the Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling at a flea market in New York. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, he is transported in a dream to the book's fairyland, following along and undergoing a madcap journey through the Moon Palace. 
 
Waking from his dream, Wang Qi returns to everyday mundane life in New York, where a serious displacement in love is occurring within the circle of his friends......

劉曉藝博士，2010年畢業于美國亞利桑那大學東亞系，主修晚帝國史。她的博士論文為"衣食和行：《醒世姻緣傳》裏的明代物質生活"。她的其他研究興趣包括但不限於：中國女子教育史，民國史，翻譯及當代電影。她長期為澳門利(瑪竇) 氏學社所創的中英雙語季刊《神州交流》做翻譯，內容廣泛涉及當代中外社會與文化。

劉曉藝現全職任教于北亞利桑那大學國際語言文化系，教授中國語言和文化。

Xiaoyi Liu graduated from The University of Arizona with a Ph.D. in 2010 majoring Late Imperial Chinese History. Her dissertation is titled Clothing, Food and Travel: Ming Material Culture as Reflected in Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan. Her other research interests include, but are not limited to: history of Chinese women’s education, Republican Era history, translation and contemporary movies. She has been for a long time working as a translator for the bilingual Chinese-English quarterly, Chinese Cross Currents, founded by the Macau Ricci Institute, cover a wide range of topics and affairs in contemporary society and culture, both in the Chinese world and abroad. Xiaoyi Liu currently works for the Department of Global Languages & Cultures, Northern Arizona University as a full-time faculty, teaching Chinese language and culture.