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This is our fifth story for the month of July 2022 issue 190.

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So our story is titled The Strange Girl, and is by Zhiyu, Xinyu, and translated by Emily

Jin.

Zhiyu, Xinyu, is a science fiction writer from China.

Her fiction has been previously published in English in Clarks World.

She received her master's degree in philosophy from Xinhua University in 2016.

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Another translator, Emily Jin, is a science fiction fantasy translator, translating both

from Chinese to English, and the other way around.

She graduated from Wellesley College in 2017 and she is currently pursuing a PhD in East

Asian languages and literature at Yale University.

As one of the core members of the Clarks World Storycom collaborative project on publishing

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