TWENTY-TWO Evenings in Spring, a recent addition to Shenyang-based Spring Breeze Literature Publishing House’s fiction series, Cotton Tigers, may also be read as writer Xu Kun’s autobiography. A native of Shenyang, Xu Kun has lived in Beijing for more than ten years and works as a researcher for the Institute of Literary Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Now in her late TWENTY-TWO Evenings in Spring, a recent addition to Shenyang-based Spring Breeze Literature Publishing House’s fiction series, Cotton Tigers, may also be read as writer Xu Kun’s autobiography. A native of Shenyang, Xu Kun has lived in Beijing for more than ten years and works as a researcher for the Institute of Literary Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Now in her late