Presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing
Blood Ties presents work from rural and urban China, Tibet, Singapore, and the U.S. Through fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and artwork, this volume explores the complexities of Chinese identity created by migration, displacement, ethnic mixing, and separation from homeland. Individuals whose identities have been made more complex by rapid globalization will find these works especially meaningful.
Editor’s Note, vii
ESSAYS
City Out of Breath, 50
Ken Chen
Home Away from Home: Photographs from the On Char Collection, 99
Gregory Yee Mark
The Spirit of Zhyge Alu: The Nuosu Poetry of Aku Wuwu, 113
Mark Bender
FICTION
Yanni’s Secret, 1
Zhang Kangkang
Alien, 23
Catherine Lim
Ephemeral Life, 29
Zhu Wenying
Zhima, 59
Zhang Kangkang
Down to the River, 103
Colin Cheong
from The Shrimp People, 131
Rex Shelley
Blood Ties, 138
Alai
POETRY
Five Poems, 17
Arthur Sze
from Spinning Polyhedral Mirror, 54
Yan Li
Rose Hips, 57
Zhang Er
Three Poems, 106
Wang Ping
Four Poems, 119
Aku Wuwu
CHAPBOOK
Konglish, 172
Yuzun Kang