Chen Hengzhe: A Life between Orthodoxies review
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Megan M. Ferry’s review of Chen Hengzhe: A Life between Orthodoxies (Lexington 2015), by Denise Gimpel. The review appears below,...
View ArticleFang Fang, periscope on history
Source: China Daily (9/30/16) A periscope on history By Mei Jia (China Daily) Author combines perspectives to shed light on difficult times, she tells Mei Jia. Fang Fang has always been an outspoken...
View ArticleVoice of Burmese Poetry: ko ko thett
This is a bit outside the “China” focus of our list, but it’s a special event that we would like to advertise as broadly as possible. If you are in the neighborhood, please try to attend.–Kirk Voice of...
View ArticleThe Invisibility Cloak
Dear List, It is my great pleasure to announce that my translation of Ge Fei’s novel The Invisibility Cloak, published as part of the New York Review of Books Classics Series, is now available in...
View ArticleChinese literature finds its place
Source: Observer (10/13/16) Chinese Literature Finds Its Place Dazed and dealing with rapid modernization, PRC now produces writers who are unmistakably Chinese By Josh Feola and Michael Pettis “China...
View ArticleChinese literature finds its place (1)
I very much enjoyed this article, which draws attention to many of the most exciting things going on in contemporary literature, but I hope members of this list will be inspired to also publish more...
View ArticleShengnü (leftover women) in Chinese literature?
Dear all, Writing on the behalf of a MA student who is working on the shengnü 剩女 (leftover women) phenomenon. Wondering if any of you had a literary text dealing with this issue (novels, short...
View ArticleShengnü (leftover women) in Chinese literature (1)
Wang Anyi, Fang Fang, Chi Li and Chi Zijian often write stories about divorced women or women of a certain age who are not yet married. Wang Anyi and Fang Fang’s stories in the forthcoming anthology By...
View ArticleShengnü (leftover women) in Chinese literature (2,3)
This is indeed a niche point to occupy but I cannot think of any influential fiction that centers on the leftover woman yet; but in popular online fiction and “low-end” film there are:...
View ArticleOne language is not enough
Source: The Guardian (10/13/16) Xiaolu Guo: ‘One language is not enough – I write in both Chinese and English’ The Chinese-British novelist on the hidden language of dreams, living in London and...
View Article“Shengnü (leftover women) in Chinese literature (4)
A big thank you for all the reading recommendations I received about the “shengnü” phenomenon in Chinese literature and film. It obviously sparked widespread interest! That’s a rather nice topic, in...
View ArticleDu Fu in the Modern World
One panel of the Du Fu Conference, which will be held at Harvard later this week, is on modern poetry. Information about the conference can be found at: http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/dufu/home Du Fu...
View ArticlePaper Republic is back
READ PAPER REPUBLIC is back! After a break over the summer (we had a busy 12 months last year, publishing a short story, poem or essay a week from June 2015 to June 2016), today we’re launching our new...
View ArticleChina’s Literary Cosmopolitans review
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Inhye Han’s review of China’s Literary Cosmopolitans: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, and the World of Letters (Brill, 2015), edited by...
View ArticleSinophone Studies recordings
The Sinophone Studies conference at Harvard last week went very well. My colleague at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, James, has kindly made three audio recordings of the conference available...
View ArticleMaking online literature pay big
Source: Sinosphere, NYT (10/31/16) Making Online Literature Pay Big in China By AMY QIN Zhang Wei [张威], China’s top-earning online novelist, is not modest about his success. “I love writing, and I’m...
View ArticleNew voices at Frankfurt Book Fair
Source: China Daily (10/26/16) New and newer voice By Mei Jia (China Daily) Western readers have great expectations of Chinese authors, according to veteran Sinologist Michael Kahn-Ackermann.”They’re...
View ArticleSound Rising from the Paper review
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Mengjun Li’s review of Sound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination...
View ArticleGulangyu poetry fest
Source: Global Times (11/2/16) Leading Chinese poets in spotlight at literary fest Forty years after Bei Dao wrote the epochal poem The Answer, Chinese people still remember the famous line of this...
View ArticleThe Chinese Political Novel review
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Kenny Kwok-kwan Ng’s review of The Chinese Political Novel: Migration of a World Genre (Harvard University Asia Center, 2016), by...
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