US poet laureate in Beijing
Source: Sup China (10/19/17) U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith on Chinese poetry, language, and the allure of China By Anthony Tao BEIJING – Tracy K. Smith, who began her post as the 22nd poet laureate...
View ArticleInterview with Ma Jian
Source: Deutsche Welle (10/18/17) Chinese author Ma Jian: ‘The Communist Party keeps their people well-fed, but in a cage’ Every five years, China’s Communist Party convenes at a special congress. Can...
View Article“Lu Xun Travels around the World”
Should anyone be interested in the research background to my translation of Lu Xun’s “What Happens After Nora Lives Home” in the volume Jottings under Lamplight edited by Eileen J. Cheng and Kirk A...
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“Tracy K. Smith, who began her post as the 22nd poet laureate of the United States in September, has expressed a desire to promote poetry in underserved backwaters and remote corners.” So she goes to...
View ArticleUS-China Poetry Dialogue
Source: Notes on the Mosquito (10/24/17) US-China Poetry Dialogue at University of Oklahoma Xi Chuan and other Chinese and American poets are at the University of Oklahoma for the US-China Poetry...
View ArticleSexual life in modern China
Source: NY Review of Books (10/26/17) Sexual Life in Modern China By Ian Johnson Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, Chinese writers grappled with the traumas of the Mao period, seeking to make sense...
View ArticleOnline lit readers number 350 million
Source: China Daily (10/24/17) Online literature readers number 350 million in China By Li Hongrui On the subways in Beijing, most people stare at their smartphones. Some play video games or watch TV...
View ArticleA literary award for plagiarists
Source: Sup China (11/1/17) A literary award for plagiarists By Jiayun Feng “I thought this was something from the Onion at first. But I’m glad to know it is real news.” “A well-deserved prize for such...
View ArticleThe Great Romantic Xu Zhimo
Source: Sup China (11/16/17) The Great Romantic of 20th-Century Chinese Poetry, Xu Zhimo By ELEANOR GOODMAN This past spring, I traveled to rural Zhejiang Province to participate in a poetry event. At...
View ArticleXu Zhimo event
I’m one of the organizers for the Xu Zhimo event in New York tomorrow. The reason that we are conducting the event in Chinese is that the event is not in the form of a symposium, but rather readings of...
View ArticleSocialist Cosmopolitanism
I thought the MCLC list might be interested in Matt Turner’s review of Nicolai Volland’s Socialist Cosmopolitanism. Lucas Klein <lklein@hku.hk> Source: Hyperallergic (11/11/17) The Past and...
View ArticleLiu Waitong’s Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits
Source: Jacket 2 (11/15/17) Liu Waitong’s ‘Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits’ By COLLIER NOGUES Wandering Hong Kong with Spirits 和幽靈一起的香港漫遊 Liu Waitong 廖偉棠, trans. Enoch Yee-lok Tam, Desmond Sham,...
View ArticleYangdon’s death
Dear all, I’m deeply saddened to pass on the news of the death of the author Yangdon (Ch. Yangzhen 央珍). She passed away in Beijing in October. Yangdon was best known for her novel Wu xingbie de shen...
View ArticlePoetry Sky 48
The 48th issue (Fall/Winter 2017) of Poetry Sky has been published. The original work and translations of twenty contemporary Chinese and American poets are included. This issue was edited by Dr. Kyle...
View ArticleLegends of the Condor Heroes translation
Source: Global Times (11/9/17) UK publisher working on English edition of Jin Yong’s ‘Legends of the Condor Heroes’ By Huang Tingting Six decades after the debut of Jin Yong’s popular Chinese martial...
View ArticleLegends of the Condor Heroes translation (1)
Some translations of Louis Cha’s/Jin Yong’s martial arts novels are available: The Book and the Sword (Oxford University Press, 2005), translated by Graham Earnshaw, edited by John Minford and Rachel...
View ArticleYu Guangzhong dies at age 90
Source: Sup China (12/14/17) Chinese poet Yu Guangzhong dies at age 90 By Jia Guo Poet and writer Yu Guangzhong 余光中 died at the age of 90 on Thursday in Taiwan. He was admitted to a hospital earlier...
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Source: Taipei Times (12/15/17) Poet Yu Kwang-chung, 90, dies in Kaohsiung FAREWELL: Born in China in 1928, Yu Kwang-chung began writing in 1949. He migrated to Taiwan in 1950 and in the same year...
View ArticleLiu Xia ‘going mad’ under detention
Source: The Guardian (12/17/17) ‘I live like a plant’: Nobel winner’s wife ‘going mad’ under Chinese detention Liu Xia, poet and widow of democracy advocate Liu Xiaobo, suffering deep depression after...
View ArticleLiu Xia ‘going mad’ under detention (1)
Liu Xia’s poem, Liao Yiwu’s appeal and photographs made by Liu Xia can be found on my blog HERE: Martin Winter <dujuan99@gmail.com>
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