Zhongguo Qi Tan

Across different ages and different worlds, ordinary lives brush against the strange. A small monster struggles beneath the ambitions of a far greater demon, travelers encounter beings whose appearances cannot be trusted, and people separated by species or circumstance discover how fragile the line between fear and affection can be.

Other lives unfold in villages, cities, and imagined futures, carrying memories of the countryside, changing families, loneliness, technology, and dreams that refuse to fit neatly into reality. Each tale follows its own people and rules, but all look for something recognizably human inside China's myths, daily life, and constantly changing imagination.