Taiwanese poet Yang Mu dies at 79
Source: Focus Taiwan (3/13/20) Noted Taiwanese poet Yang Mu dies at 79 By Chen Cheng-wen, Chao Ching-yu and Elizabeth Hsu Taipei, March 13 (CNA) Renowned Taiwanese poet, essayist and critic Yang Mu...
View ArticleDisappearance of Perhat Tursun
Meanwhile, the massive racist atrocities in Xinjiang continue unabated — Fwd by Magnus Fiskesjö <nf42@cornell.edu> Source: Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia (3/13/20) Scenes from the...
View ArticleWhy You Should Read Bi Shumin’s Novel Coronavirus
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of “Why You Should Read Bi Shumin’s Novel Coronavirus,” by Xiaomei Yu. The essay can be found here:...
View ArticleWhy You Should Read Bi Shumin’s Novel Coronavirus (1)
Xiaomei Yu’s detailed synopsis of Bi Shumin’s Coronavirus brings to mind another, older work which is timely: Hu Fayun’s 如焉@sars.come, still available ;-) in English as Such Is This World@sars.come....
View ArticleBeing 21 during the Coronavirus
Source: China Channel, LARB (3/21/20) Being Twenty-One During Coronavirus Advice for students out of school, from Shi Tiesheng’s celebrated essay By Nick Admussen Nick Admussen is an associate...
View ArticleYu Kwang-chung essay “Dear Music”
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Sunny Tien and Ivan Wong’s translation of “Dear Music: Spare My Innocent Ears!,” by Yu Kwang-chung. The essay appears below and at its online...
View ArticleThe Unworthy Scholar of Pingjiang review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Roland Altenburger’s review of The Unworthy Scholar of Pingjiang: Republican-Era Martial Arts Fiction, by Christopher John Hamm. The review...
View ArticleFang Fang, the conscience of Wuhan
Source: The Diplomat (3/23/20) Fang Fang: The ‘Conscience of Wuhan’ Amid Coronavirus Quarantine The party’s ill-governance of the deadly virus has given birth to a new critical voice: Fang Fang’s Wuhan...
View ArticleYan Lianke volume–cfp
We are seeking contributions to an edited volume focusing on Yan Lianke studies. We are pleased to announce the official Call for Papers, for your kind consideration. We look forward to your...
View ArticleMai Jia’s The Message review
Source: SCMP (4/10/20) The Message, Mai Jia’s flawed wartime novel, can be read as disguised criticism of Chinese Communist rule A fiction about the hunt for a spy among wartime codebreakers combines...
View ArticleFang Fang’s Wuhan Diary translations
Source: Bruce-Humes.com (4/10/20) Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary: Dissed for ‘Washing Dirty Linen’ before Foreign Eyes By Bruce Humes 家丑不传外 It was bad enough that author Fang Fang (方方) has regularly posted...
View ArticleExcerpts from Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary
Source: NYT (4/14/20) She Kept a Diary of China’s Epidemic. Now She Faces a Political Storm. 阅读简体中文版 | 閱讀繁體中文版 “If authors have any responsibilities in the face of disaster, the greatest of them is to...
View ArticleChinese Grammatology review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Shuheng (Diana) Zhang’s review of Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958, by Yurou Zhong. The review...
View ArticleFang Fang’s Wuhan Diary essay
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Marco Fumian’s essay “To Serve the People or the Party: Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary and Chinese Writers at the Time of Coronavirus.” The essay...
View ArticleWhat the great pandemic novels teach us
Although not focused on China, this piece by Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk on Western literary representations of pandemic, is quite relevant, I think, to list members.–Kirk Source: NYT (4/23/20) What the...
View ArticleInterview with Yuan Ling
Source: NY Review of Books (3/24/20) ‘Everyone Is Isolated’: An Interview with Yuan Ling By Ian Johnson Yuan Ling is a border-crosser: between village and city, academia and journalism, mainstream and...
View ArticleA Message Held to the Flame
Source: Paper Republic (4/23/20) A Message Held to the Flame, by A Yi 阿乙: 《我们所处的人的环境》 Translated by Dylan Levi King We are delighted to introduce this week’s essay on coronavirus in China, especially...
View ArticleInterview with Xue Yiwei
Source: China Channel, LARB (4/25/20) Xue Yiwei: In Search of Universal Values A Chinese novelist talks to Jeffrey Wasserstrom, introduced by Amy Hawkins By Xue Yiwei and Jeff Wasserstrom My uncle, Xue...
View ArticleLockdown poems by Lin Bai
Source: Paper Republic (4/30/20) Split Spring, by Lin Bai 林白: 《节气：春分》 Translated by David Haysom I first spotted these poems on the blog page of the Sichuan poet Zhai Yongming, and was immediately...
View ArticleInterview with Yan Lianke
MCLC Resource Center is please to announce publication of Haiyan Xie’s interview with Yan Lianke, entitled “An Age without Classics and the Writer’s Anxiety.” The interview appears below and at its...
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