Asymptote translation contest
Calling all emerging Chinese-English translators: submit to Asymptote‘s $4,500 translation contest today We’re awarding first prizes of $1,000 in three categories: fiction, poetry and a new category...
View ArticlePoetry Sky 42
The 42nd issue (Fall/Winter 2015) of Poetry Sky has been published. The original work and translations of seventeen contemporary Chinese and American poets are included. This issue was edited by Dr....
View ArticleFu Lei awards announced
Source: China Daily (11/30/15) Winners of Fu Lei Translation Awards honored By chinadaily.com.cn Three Chinese works were named winners of the 7th Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Awards at Shanghai’s...
View ArticleChinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem, and Money open access
Pleased to report that my Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money (Brill, 2008) is available through open access at http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789047442738 (or...
View ArticleLing Yu’s A Tree Planted in Summer
Ling Yu’s A Tree Planted in Summer (trans. Fiona Sze-Lorrain) Published for the first time in a bilingual edition, these fifteen “train poems” are culled from Taiwanese poet Ling Yu’s latest...
View ArticlePublishers under censorship pressure
From: maghiel van crevel <M.van.Crevel@hum.leidenuniv.nl> Source: The Guardian (11/13/15) Publishers under pressure as China’s censors reach for red pen Xi Jinping may boast of reading Tolstoy...
View ArticleFrontiers of Literary Studies in China, 9.3
The latest issue of Frontiers of Literary Studies in China is now available! Below, please find the table of contents and see the link for more information:...
View ArticleGerman version of People’s Literature launched
Source: China Daily (12/5/15) Pathlight of Chinese literature to lighten up the world By Mei Jia (chinadaily.com.cn) Following the warm reception of the English version of People’s Literature, a...
View ArticleGerman version of People’s Literature launched (1)
Glad to see the China Daily piece about our magazine! You can find more information and scraps from the first issue on my blog:...
View ArticleGerman version of People’s Literature launched (2)
Tencent has a more detailed report in Chinese on LEUCHTSPUR the new German Pathlight magazine launched by People’s Literature: http://cul.qq.com/a/20151124/033509.htm Best, Martin...
View ArticleFanfic proves potential gold mine
Source: Global Times (12/8/15) Fanfic proves potential gold mine for Chinese IP owners By Xiong Yuqing Since Alibaba Pictures Vice President Xu Yuanxiang announced plans to recruit groups of...
View ArticleThe Poetry of Yan Jun
Back in 2003, the MCLC Resource Center published an essay by Maghiel van Crevel called “The Poetry of Yan Jun.” In the process of converting to the new web platform in August 2014, the links to the...
View ArticleHK author leads retreat
Source: SCMP (12/13/15) Hong Kong author leads writing retreat on private Indonesian island This is not a holiday, warns Xu Xi of five-day visit to island in Riau archipelago with just 15 vacation...
View ArticleVol. 27, no. 2 of MCLC, special issue on Hong Shen
I’m happy to announce the imminent publication of vol. 27, no. 2 (fall 2015) of MCLC, a special issue guested edited by Siyuan Liu and Xiaomei Chen and entitled Hong Shen and the Modern Mediasphere in...
View ArticleSurveys on the impact of Chinese lit in the US
Dear Colleagues: I have a visiting scholar named Hua Meng here from Tongji University in Shanghai, who is doing survey work on the impact of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the US (in...
View ArticleWang Lixiong barred from going to Japan
Source: Japan Times (12/19/15) Famous Chinese Novelist Barred from Leaving for Japan… By Kyodo News BEIJING – Wang Lixiong, a prominent Chinese novelist known for his critical views of the government’s...
View ArticleYan Lianke on humor and tragedy
Source: China Daily (12/23/15) No time to be funny By Yang Yang (China Daily) Chinese writer Yan Lianke is a humorous man. Like his novels, his conversation is often witty and is full of plans that...
View ArticlePolitics of Art review
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Liang Luo’s review of Politics of Art: The Creation Society and the Practice of Theoretical Struggle in Revolutionary China (Brill...
View ArticleGoldblatt translation of Abandoned Capital?
I am writing a piece covering the upcoming Howard Goldblatt translation of Abandoned Capital and issues surrounding its road to translation/publication. The CLT book series, published by University of...
View ArticleGoldblatt’s translation of Abandoned Capital (1)
Yes, CLT is very excited to announce that the publication of Howard Goldblatt’s translation of Jia Pinwa’s Fei Du (now entitled “Ruined City”) will be released January 22, 2016. I will be posting a...
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