Cat Country

Lao She's only work of science fiction is both a dark, dystopian tale of one man's close encounter with the feline kind and a scathing indictment of a country gone awry

When a traveler from China crash-lands on Mars, he finds himself in a country inhabited entirely by Cat People. Befriended by a local cat-man, he becomes acquainted in all aspects of cat-life: he learns to speak Felinese, masters cat-poetry, and appreciates the narcotic effects of the reverie leaf—their food staple. But curiosity turns to despair when he ventures further into the heart of the country and the culture, and realizes that he is witnessing the bleak decline of a civilization.

• The Three-Body Problem
• Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation
• Rickshaw Boy: A Novel
• The Fat Years
• Border Town: A Novel
• The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River
• Zero and Other Fictions (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)
• The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution
• Shanghai Express: A Thirties Novel (Fiction from Modern China)
• Celestial Empire: The Emergence of Chinese Science Fiction (Early Classics Of Science Fiction)