Poetry International Chinese poetry feature
Poetry International/Rotterdam is running a feature about Chinese poetry this week: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/home There are four sections: Rereading Hu Shi Survey of Poet’s...
View ArticleWhy Dream of Red Chamber is virtually unknown in the west
Source: The Guardian (2/12/16) Why is China’s greatest novel virtually unknown in the west? Dream of the Red Chamber is a masterpiece that has been called the ‘book of the millennium’ and it is high...
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David Henry Hwang and Bright Sheng have done an adaptation of the novel which will be performed by the San Francisco Opera this September. Here is an interview in which they discuss the process of...
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The playwright, novelist, and translator Jeremy Tiang has adapted the novel into an off broadway play:...
View ArticleViral poem highlights cult of Xi
Worst poem ever?–Kirk Source: Time (2/19/16) Ode to Autocracy: Viral Poem Highlights Cult of China’s Leader By Hannah Beech / Shanghai Xi Jinping’s growing personality cult comes at a time of even...
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David Bandurski provides the Chinese original as well as a partial translation which is, I think, superior to Time’s, although in this case that is a tough call. It’s available here...
View ArticleNaked Earth review
MCLC and MCLC Resource Center are pleased to announce publication of Xiao Jiwei’s review of Naked Earth (New York Review of Books Classics, 2015), by Eileen Chang. The review appears below, but is best...
View ArticleViral poem highlights cult of Xi (2)
Here are some more poetic accolades for Chairman Xi–Rudolf Wagner Source: http://www.backchina.com/news/2016/02/23/411890.html 文章来源: 刘信达于 2016-02-22 学堂导读：作家刘信达诗作《习主席赞》火遍网络，小伙伴们快来学习一下写作文采吧! 习主席赞(外七首)...
View ArticleThe Lost Garden review
From: Nick Kaldis <nkaldis@gmail.com> Source: Taiwan Today (3/1/16) Museum of Innocence By ROBERT GREEN A newly translated novel by one of Taiwan’s most celebrated authors explores the emotional...
View ArticleA Pail of Oysters reprinted
Source: Taipei Times (2/28/16) Literary redemption Out of print since the 1950s, Camphor Press is republishing Vern Sneider’s novel about life in Taiwan during the White Terror era By Han Cheung /...
View ArticleNortheast China intertext–primary sources?
Dear MCLC members, I have recently been thrust into the throes of gathering primary sources for my PhD research on intertextuality in Manchukuo literature. I would like to ask the list members if...
View ArticleBeijing Comrades review
Source: Broadly (3/16/16) The Controversial Chinese Gay Erotic Novel You Can Finally Read in English By Hugh Ryan In 1998, an anonymous writer began publishing installments of a gay erotic novel...
View ArticleMai Jia’s espionage thrillers
Does anyone know who the translator of In the Dark, mentioned in this article, is? The translation seems to have been published already, but neither the Penguin webpage, nor the published e-book...
View ArticleRuined City review
M.A. Orthofer of the Complete Review has written a review of Howard Goldblatt’s recently published translation of Jia Pingwa’s Ruined City (University of Oklahoma Press).–Nick Stember...
View ArticleColumbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature
Forgive the shameless self-promotion. I am happy to announce that my edited book, The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature (Columbia UP, 2016), has been published. The book is an off-shoot...
View ArticleTalk of bookshops’ demise exaggerated
Source: China Daily (3/26/16) Bookshops: Talk of demise is exaggerated By Yang Yang (China Daily) “These days, who reads books?” I have just made myself comfortable at a table in a cafe in People’s...
View ArticleWeb writer’s income tops 100 million yuan
Source: China Daily (3/25/16) Top Chinese web-writer’s income tops 100 million By Ruan Fan (chinadaily.com.cn) Zhang Wei, a 34-year-old former state media employee whose pen name is Tangjiasanshao,...
View ArticleHarriet Mills (1920-2016)
Source: NYT (3/29/16) Harriet Mills, Scholar Held in ‘Brainwashing Prison’ in China, Dies at 95 By SAM ROBERTS Harriet Mills, a Fulbright scholar from New York who was imprisoned as an American spy in...
View ArticleMo Yan and Chinese literary studies essay
My article “A Dissonance of Discourses: Literary Theory, Ideology, and Translation in Mo Yan and Chinese Literary Studies” has just been published in the current issue of Comparative Literature Studies...
View ArticleMo Yan and Chinese literary studies essay (1)
I much admire Lucas Klein’s scholarship and translations; his “A Dissonance of Discourses: Literary Theory, Ideology, and Translation in Mo Yan and Chinese Literary Studies” in Comparative Literature...
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