Method as Method review
Source: Cha: An Asian Literary Journal no. 46 (1/15/21) [REVIEW] “THEORIES, METHODS, OBJECTS, AND LOCALITIES: A REVIEW OF METHOD AS METHOD” By Liang Luo Twenty years ago, as a graduate student newly...
View ArticleRemembering and Forgetting the Traumatic Past
My essay, “Remembering and Forgetting the Traumatic Past,” which reviews Lingchei Letty Chen’s The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years and Margaret Hillenbrand’s Negative...
View ArticleShakespeare and East Asia book launch
Join us for a book launch on how Shakespeare is connected to theater, film, and literature in East Asia. Fri, February 19, 2021 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EST Book giveaway: Join us and ask a question during...
View ArticleRain in Plural review
Source: EcoTheoReview (1/18/21) Unwinding Underground: A Review of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s Rain in Plural By Hannah VanderHart The multiple layers and the angles of Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s fourth collection of...
View ArticleWomen Writing China
Li Juan, a prominent Chinese essayist, will be discussing her experiences as female writer living and writing in a rural Chinese community. About this Event In partnership with the Leeds Centre for New...
View ArticleTaiwan Lit 1.1 and 1.2
Taiwan Lit January 23, 2021 Dear Friends, We are happy to present the first two issues of Taiwan Lit (1.1 & 1.2). Established in the summer of 2020, Taiwan Lit aims to build a critical...
View Article“Communist Rhapsody”
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Adrian Thieret’s translation of “Communist Rhapsody,” a story by Zheng Wenguang. “Communist Rhapsody” is a “scientific fantasy” written during...
View ArticleDecadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: A Comparative and Literary-Historical Reevaluation by Hongjian Wang (Cambria Press) Cambria Sinophone World Series (General Editor: Victor H. Mair)...
View ArticleRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature–MLA cfp
Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to...
View ArticleThe April 3rd Incident review
Source: LARB China Channel (1/21/21) The Surrealism of the Real Eleanor Goodman reviews The April 3rd Incident by Yu Hua By Elenaor Goodman As readers will find in his massive novel Brothers and clever...
View ArticleOrdinary Days: A Memoir in Six Chapters review
Source: Taipei Times (2/4/21) Book review: The internationalist writers A mixture of literary references from different cultures and personal reminiscence makes this a fascinating book By Bradley...
View ArticleA selection of poems by Qiu Jin
Source: China Channel, LARB (2/12/21) Feminist, Revolutionary, Poet A selection of poems by Qiu Jin, in new translation by Yilin Wang Translator’s note: Qiu Jin (秋瑾) was a Chinese revolutionary,...
View ArticleThe Membranes
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes by Chi Ta-wei, forthcoming in an English translation by Ari Larissa Heinrich on June 1, is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. In this...
View ArticleApp writes new chapter in reading
Source: China Daily (1/28/21) App writes new chapter in reading By Yang Yang | CHINA DAILY As digital reading and social media in China become more dominant in daily life, fewer people are reading...
View ArticleEcological Critique of Alienation in Recent Chinese SF
LECTURE: Ecological Critique of Alienation in Recent Chinese Science Fiction Ban Wang Register here University of Kansas March 4, 2021; 4:00 – 5:30 PM CST 2:00 – 3:30 PM PST Capitalist...
View ArticleAdventures in Translating between Cultures and Eras (1)
In case you missed it live, here’s the recording of the UC Irvine zoom event with John Minford and Julia Lovell:
View Article2021 Newman Symposium featuring Yan Lianke
Dear Friends, Please register for the 2021 Newman Symposium featuring Yan Lianke 阎连科 that will take place 8:00pm-9:30pm Eastern Time on March 18 (Thursday). We are excited to have four Yan Lianke...
View ArticleNew books by Martin Winter
Hi, Happy Lantern Festival, may this lunar year be better than the last one! I wrote a Rat poem on the last day of 2020, it was presented by Yi Sha. Actually I wanted to tell you about the new book...
View ArticleA Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Brian Skerratt’s review of A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune: Classical-Style Poetry of Modern Chinese Writers, by Haosheng Yang. The...
View ArticleInterview with Liu Cixin
Source: Chinese Literature Today (3/5/21) Humanity, Crisis, and Changes: An Interview with Liu Cixin [Originally published in Chinese at Kyodo News Beijing, March 1, 2021. click here for link to...
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