The collection includes eight stories of modern Chinese writers and eight Russian ones. The theme of life after death is revealed by the authors not primarily as a transition to another world or reasoning about immortality, but as an "extended metaphor of everyday life, when one or another fatal act or inaction leads to death - spiritual or spiritual, but partial death. And the closer you look at the world, which is opened by different worldviews, stylistics, aesthetic preferences of the work, the more obvious the overlap, the conjugation of two such different cultures” (Irina Barmetova) .. The idea of this meaningful and generally understandable literary dialogue was proposed by the Beijing publishing house “People’s Literature Publishing House, China” and supported by the publishing house “Time”. The collection “Life after death” is published simultaneously in two languages .