Burn (烧): Pre-Orders Open

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Pre-orders have now opened for the mainland print edition of Burn (烧, pinyin: shao) by Chu Dao (初岛), one of the best-known baihe tragedies. It starts off with a one-night stand between trainee photographer Xiao Zhou and up-and-coming model Lan Shan, and things escalate (or deteriorate) from there.

Pre-orders can be on Taobao made via the following bookshops:

• Motie (the publisher)
  
• Jinse
  
• Boku
  
• Kuaile
  
• Bowenxuan
  
• Wangou

The web version of the novel can be read here (for free!) on Changpei. An ongoing fan translation into English by yuerstruly can be read here. My review of the novel is available here.

Here is some of the interior art for this edition of the novel. They are all representations of significant photographs that Xiao Zhou takes in the story. The first, second and fifth are of Lan Shan, the third is of Yang Xi (a model who is a rival of sorts for Lan Shan), and the fourth is of Lu Xingjia, Xiao Zhou's emotionally fragile gay friend.








I personally prefer the art which the author commissioned for her self-published print edition of the novel (no longer readily available), which is moodier and less self-consciously pretty. A couple of examples of these can be seen under the cut, taken from Weibo.