Peach Blossom Paradise

Ge Fei is the pen name of Liu Yong. One of China’s most famous living novelists, he spearheaded the avant-garde literary movement in China before turning to historical fiction and macabre realism. He is most famous for his South of the Yangtze trilogy, which includes Peach Blossom Paradise, I Dream of Mountains and Rivers, and Spring Ends in Jiangnan, and for which he won the 2015 Mao Dun Prize for Literature. He teaches at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Canaan Morse is a translator and poet based in Boston. Co-founder of the literary quarterly Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, he has contributed original and translated poetry and prose to The Kenyon Review, The Baffler, The Southern Review, and other journals. His translation of Ge Fei’s The Invisibility Cloak won the 2014 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in ancient Chinese performance literature at Harvard University.