About the author
Te-Ping Chen is an American journalist and fiction writer. Her reporting background gives Land of Big Numbers a precise eye for work, movement, bureaucracy, and the modest private hopes that larger systems can redirect.
The ten stories in Te-Ping Chen's collection move through villages, factories, call centers, train stations, city apartments, and immigrant lives in the United States. Their characters want recognizably modest things — a job, a home, a marriage, a chance to travel — and find those wishes caught in larger systems.
Where to start
Start with Land of Big Numbers: Stories. Ten stories follow workers, students, migrants, and dreamers negotiating private hopes in contemporary China and beyond.
