A TRULY NOVEL APPROACH

With its cross-cultural themes, the first Chinese edition of fantasy writer Ken Liu's genre-defying Dandelion Dynasty series looks set to beguile mainland readers. Yang Yang reports.

Ken Liu dislikes being tagged as a Chinese-American writer and the over-interpretation that connects his writings with his cross-cultural identity, saying that he just wants to write something original that he wants to read.

Since 2002, he has published more than 100 short stories and two novels of the Dandelion Dynasty series in English. He is now working on the third installment.