Bei Dao memoir excerpt
From: lklein <lklein@hku.hk> Source: The Manchester Review, no. 17 (March 2017) From City Gate, Open Up Bei Dao Translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Yang Sounds 1 Around age six or seven I...
View ArticleCan Xue’s Frontier review
Source: Music and Literature (3/14/17) CAN XUE’S FRONTIER Reviewed by Canaan Morse Reading is an act that requires memory. As a reader’s eyes move through text, the connections between sequences of...
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List members who read my review of Frontier should know that the word “regressed,” an editorial intervention, in the phrase “Ge Fei and Yu Hua regressed to representational prose,” has been changed...
View ArticleShenzheners review
Source: Chinese Literature of the Americas 紅杉林: 美洲華人文藝 (12.1, Spring 2017) China: Loneliness behind Sound and Fury—– On Xue Yiwei’s Shenzheners Reviewed by Amy Hawkins There is a temptation commonly...
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Source: Chinese Literature of the Americas 紅杉林: 美洲華人文藝 (12.1, Spring 2017) China: Loneliness behind Sound and Fury—– On Xue Yiwei’s Shenzheners Reviewed by Amy Hawkins There is a temptation commonly...
View ArticleBi Feiyu makes reading accessible
Source: China Daily (3/3/17) He makes reading accessible By Mei Jia When writer Bi Feiyu landed in Beijing recently for four book events and to do a show on China Central Television’s hit program...
View ArticleInterview with Ke Yunlu
Source: NYRB (3/29/17) Liberating China’s Past: An Interview with Ke Yunlu By Ian Johnson With the closing of this month’s National People’s Congress, China’s political season is upon us. It will...
View ArticleInterview with Chen Qiufan
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce Sun Mengtian’s interview with science fiction writer Chen Qiufan. The interview, which was conducted in Chinese in December of last year, is here...
View ArticleLiu Cixin nominated again for Hugo Award
Source: China Daily (4/6/17) Chinese sci-fic writer nominated for second Hugo Award China Plus The finalists for the 2017 Hugo Awards, which celebrate the year’s best in science fiction or fantasy...
View ArticleWang Meng contact?
Hello everybody! I’ve been trying for more than a month to contact Wang Meng, the writer, at his previous email address: wangmeng@163.com and wangmengban@163.com, but while his personal address seems...
View ArticleTreasure chest of Chinese literature
Source: NYT (4/8/17) Amid the Spanish Moss of Florida, a Treasure Chest of Chinese Literature By IAN JOHNSON SARASOTA, Fla. — In 1971, Elling O. Eide was a promising young scholar of Chinese poetry,...
View ArticleCamel · Nietzschean and Woman
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Sean Macdonald’s translation of “Camel · Nietzschean and Woman,” by Mu Shiying, as part of our online publication series. The...
View ArticleYu Xiuhua visits Stanford
Poet Yu Xiuhua Visits Stanford University Generously sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (the Confucius Institute), and co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and...
View ArticleRemembering Wang Xiaobo
Source: LA Review of Books Blog (April 11, 2017) Commemorating and Anti-Authoritarian Provocateur: Reflections on Wang Xiaobo (May 13, 1952-April 11, 19997) By Sebastian Veg Wang Xiaobo, an important...
View ArticleBurton Watson, 1925-2017 (1)
More notes on Burton Watson, the great translator and scholar, who just passed away. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=burton-dewitt-watson&pid=185123075&...
View ArticleBurton Watson, 1925-2017 (2)
Thanks for the links, Magnus. I’m glad to see an official obituary, finally. I’ve been collecting remembrances from Watson’s friends, students, and fans—scholars, translators, and poets—on my blog, and...
View ArticleLiterary Translation in Practice 2017
Literary Translation in Practice 26th – 30th June 2017, City University London Are you a practising professional or a newcomer to the art of translation? Develop your translation skills under the...
View ArticleThe Age of Irreverence wins Levenson Prize
Source: China Heritage (nd) 幽默: You Having a Laugh? The Birth of Humour in Modern China Christopher Rea’s The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (University of California Press,...
View ArticleI Am Fan Yusu
Source: SCMP (5/1/17) How a domestic helper’s tale of hardship made her China’s hottest writer By Zhang Pinghui Fan Yusu was for decades one of the faceless millions of migrant workers who fell through...
View ArticleInterview with Zhang Lijia
Source: WSJ (5/3/17) Writing China: Faith and Love in a Shenzhen Brothel By Josh Chin It’s an enduring mystery for anyone who has spent significant time walking China’s streets: What world lurks in the...
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