Te-Ping Chen

Short stories of modern day China. Well written, interesting in the human, family drama familiarity mix with the foreign Chinese culture and history. Chen does an excellent job of making it feel familiar with different details. I did not find it tremendously moving but it was good. I read most but not all of the stories as they all shared a similar tone. The weirdness of people. Not horrible but not great—the people, that is… although I guess that describes the stories somewhat as well— not bad but not great.… (mehr)