Queer Literature in the Sinosphere review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Wen-chi Li’s review of Queer Literature in the Sinosphere, edited by Hongwei Bao and Yahia Zhengtang Ma. The review appears below and at its...
View ArticleTaiwanese Science Fiction–cfp
Call for Abstracts: Taiwanese Science Fiction Journal: Taiwan Lit and the Global Sinosphere Guest Editors: Wen-chi Li and Michael O’Krent Expected Publication Year: 2027 Over the last 10 years, science...
View ArticleNewman Prize events
Dear MCLC friends, I hope you can mark your calendar for two events starting today! (1) Panel Discussion, Newman Prize for Chinese Literature, Celebrating the Work of the 2025 Laureate Ling Yu...
View ArticleSoft Burial review
Source: The Atlantic (3/27/25) The Chinese Communist Party’s Ultimate Taboo Fang Fang’s newly translated novel uncovers the brutal, buried history of land reform in China. By Ian Johnson Over its...
View ArticleSuipian 5
碎篇 // Suipian // Fragments #5 TABITHA SPEELMAN MAR 30, 2025 Welcome to the 5th edition of Suipian, my personal newsletter in which I share thoughts and resources that help me make sense of Chinese...
View ArticleReading Sinophone Women Writers
Reading Sinophone Women Writers April 4, 2-5pm Barker Center 133, 12 Quincy St., Harvard University Speakers: Li Zishu 黎紫書 Lu Pin 鹿苹 Lin Zhao 林棹 Dorothy Tse 謝曉虹 Moderators: David Der-wei Wang (Harvard...
View ArticleCity of Fiction
City of Fiction, by Yu Hua Europa Editions 2025, pp. 432, Hardcover ISBN: 9798889660934 Translated by Todd Foley A story of love, blood and dreams, set in early 20th century China In the early 20th...
View ArticleWriting to the Rhythm of Labor book talk
Dear Colleagues and Students, We extend a warm invitation for you to join us at an insightful event celebrating the release of Prof Benjamin Kindler’s new book, Writing to the Rhythm of Labor: Cultural...
View ArticleLyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse
The volume Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse: Time, Space, Bodies, and Things, edited by Justyna Jaguścik, Joanna Krenz, and Andrea Riemenschnitter (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) is now...
View ArticleCold Window Newsletter no. 6
Source: The Cold Window Newsletter 6 (2025) By Andrew Rule Welcome back to the Cold Window Newsletter! In this issue: a first foray into the world of Chinese internet literature, kicking off a column...
View ArticleTranslating Yu Hua’s ‘City of Fiction’
Source: World Literature Today (May 15, 2025) Answering New Questions: Translating Yu Hua’s City of Fiction By Todd Foley Here form is content, content is form. —Samuel Beckett on Finnegan’s Wake On...
View ArticleChinese Thirdspace
Chinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics, 1946–2020 By Jianmei Liu NY: Columbia University Press, 2025. Chinese intellectuals have long chafed under the dominance of dualities—the sense...
View Article‘The Audible Annals of Abudan’
Source: Ethnic ChinaLit (5/25/25) Synopsis: “The Audible Annals of Abudan” (梗概：《凿空) By Bruce Humes A colleague and I have just completed translation of a novel set in turn-of-the-century Xinjiang....
View ArticleHan Song wrestles with China’s rise and his own decline
Source: NYT (5/27/25) A Science Fiction Writer Wrestles With China’s Rise, and His Own Decline In his stories, Han Song explores the disorientation accompanying China’s modernization, sometimes writing...
View ArticleCheng Chou-yu dies at 91
Source: Focus Taiwan (6/15/25) Taiwanese poet Cheng Chou-yu dies at 91 By Wang Pao-er and Evelyn Kao Taipei, June 15 (CNA) Renowned Taiwanese poet Cheng Chou-yu (鄭愁予) passed away in the United States...
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