Creativity comes from "the abrasive juxtaposition" of life experiences.

                                                                    -- Mario Capecchi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007-- 

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            Dr. Shouhua Qi
                  Department of English
                  Western Connecticut State     
                  University 
                  181 White Street
                  Danbury, CT 06810

                 Office: 210F Berkshire Hall
                 Phone: (203) 837-9048
                 Email: qis@wcsu.edu

 

    

 

 

Links:

Red Room: Where the Writers Are

Thomas Hardy Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  

  

                           The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories
                             Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
                          
          “Traditional, experimental, and avant-garde, The Pearl Jacket
           and Other Stories will …breathe new energy into modern
           Chinese literature, leaving the literary and societal stagnation
           of the Cultural Revolution behind as a distant memory.”
                              (San Francisco: Stone Bridge Press, 2008)
 
 
             ". . . A pointillist painting, or a compilation say, shows you only broad outlines from
         afar. Stand  right next to it, however, and the figures begin to dissolve into brilliant
             flashes of color, each one unique. It is the job of literary types to spend their time
             yapping about isms and trends. It is the joy of readers to block up their ears to this
             rubbish and open the book."
                                                 --Elinor Teele, California Literary Review
 
            ". . . a panoramic palette of styles, subjects, and historical eras. . . a consistently rewarding
            anthology of short short fiction, with pleasant surprises on every page.
                                         --Tom Hazuka, author of  In the City of the Disappeared
                                         and Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories Tom

                      

         Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories  

"Shouhua Qi's. stories are witty, poignant, absurd, and shocking.
Part  autobiographical, the stories offer a masterful depiction of
the myriad world of jaded entrepreneurs, overzealous cops,
karaoke fanatics, dog lovers, liberated  coeds, and frustrated
urbanites who move in and out of China's colorful neon-lit  cities
and dusty rural villages; transitioning from one world to the 
other."
                (San Francisco: Long River Press, 2007)
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              "Qi’s stories of post-Cultural Revolution China gloriously join  the lineage of Chekhov.
              With unadorned prose  and utmost  compassion... Red Guard Fantasies offers glimpses
              of How to Be Chinese now that instructions from the Little Red Book no longer  apply”
                                  --Gloria Frym, author of Distance No Object and Homeless at Home
 
              "By turns tender and chilling, these elegant and deeply knowing tales linger in the mind."
                     --Daniel Asa Rose, author of Hiding Places: A Father and His Sons Retrace
                                             Their Family's Escape from the Holocaust
                            
              " Interview with Ron Samul at Miranda Magazine"
 
 
 
   When the Purple Mountain Burns: A Novel
            
“…an unprecedented first novel by a native son of  Nanking,
set during the first six days after the fall of the city to the
Japanese imperial army in  December of 1937… Like no other
before, Shouhua Qi's unique voice profoundly captures the
essence of his hometown  and the struggles faced by
Generations of  Chinese as  they exorcise the demons of popular
memory.”
                                                                                 (San Francisco: Long River Press, 2005)

            "Author Qi Explores Nanjing Massacre in New Novel"
             --Andrea Lingenfelter, International Examiner

           "A 'Must read' for America"
            --Don Dallas, Milford Weekly       
 
           "Memories of a Scarred Beauty"
            --Geni Raitisoja, Radio 86
 
                                                    
                            Twin-Sun River: An American POW in China
                                                   (Work-in-Progress)
 
            Inspired by real historical events, Twin-Sun River tells the story of Pfc Simon Mackenzie
        who chooses to disappear in the heartland of China soon after the armistice was effected
            to pursue his "Walden" ("Peach Orchard Outside the World") dream. There, in a small
            mountain village, Simon’s decision is tested over and again as he struggles to survive the
            turbulences of Modern China and as he becomes enmeshed in the life of a Chinese family.
            Parallel to Simon’s journey is that of Jie Ding, a humanities professor who traverses the
            changing landscape of China during the summer of 2001 to accomplish an impossible
            mission while trying to exorcise his own demons.
 
          A staged reading of Twin-Sun River was sponsored by the National Academy of Television
          Arts & Sciences New York on March 24, 2008 (Produced by Emmy-winning Louisa
          Burns-Bisogno and Ellen Muir; directed by Pam McDaniel).

 
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