The Weight of Bone
The first chapter of Bone, Emptiness, Fire, Extinction, Heart, reimagining Journey to the West through Zhu Bajie’s embodied experience. Read the published edition text in English, Traditional Chinese, or Japanese.
Writing Practice
Fiction, poetic prose, and long-duration narrative.
Independent literary work alongside the visual practice, with selected projects, multilingual editions, and a public author profile.
01 / Position
Fiction / Poetic Prose / Long-Duration Narrative
Writing as an Extended Practice
Pan Yao's writing moves between fiction, poetic prose, and long-duration narrative projects. Classical and mythic structures are used as perceptual frameworks through which fracture, fatigue, suspension, and transformation can be examined.
Writing remains an independent creative practice while sharing concerns with the visual work: attention, duration, structure, and the limits of coherence.
02 / External Profile
Third-Party Public Record
Paper Republic
Paper Republic maintains a public author profile for Pan Yao, identifying his work across writing and visual art and recording current literary projects.
| Profile | Pan Yao / Paper Republic |
| Access | Public third-party page |
03 / Selected Writing
Short FictionAccepted
The Listener of Light / 听光的人
An independent work within the Shanhai Man cycle. Paper Republic records the work as accepted for publication in Qingdao Literature.
Accepted is not presented as published until the issue, date, contents page, and publication pages are available.
04 / Multilingual Editions
Bone, Emptiness, Fire, Extinction, Heart
A multilingual literary project spanning Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian.
This website presents the first chapter in Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and English, with a Kindle link for each of these editions.
06 / Practice Connections
Across Media
Structure Across Image, Text, and Sound
Writing examines duration and perceptual instability through narrative; painting organizes attention spatially; sound practice tests continuity and density through time.