Eat, Love, and Split Lan Ting Hui is a restaurant that has been open for twenty years in the city’s center, specializing in Cantonese cuisine. Cantonese cuisine has always held a special place in the hearts of Shanghainese. While other regional cuisines come and go like a merry-go-round, Cantonese cuisine consistently ranks among the top […]
Xiaoming Shan
SHAN XIAOMING is a Chinese English teacher who writes stories in English in his spare time. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Writethis.com, Best Fiction, Red Lightbulbs, SNReview, Elohi Gadugi Journal, Quail Bell Magazine, Blue Crow, Constellation (nominated for Pushcart Prize), The Chaffin Journal, Sagebrush Review (forthcoming), ellipsis... literature and art, and the anthology Rigorous Mortis. His translation of Chinese literature appeared in Nashville Review, Hunger Mountain Review, and MAYDAY (longlisted in the Best Literary Translations 2025). His stories have won several honorable mentions from Glimmer Train. His MFA is from City University of Hong Kong, with distinction. He is one of the very few Chinese writers who write in English from within China.
Eat, Love and Split
The Tree
by Zhe Zhang
translated from the Chinese by Xiaoming Shan
What a place, nothing but for some bare rocks. A stark mountain, literally.
