Eurasia without Borders review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Xiaolu Ma’s review of Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943, by Katerina Clark. The review appears below...
View ArticleA Lifelong Journey dives into China’s changes
Source: China Daily (3/3/22) Record-setting TV series dives into China’s changes By Xu Fan | chinadaily.com.cn A Lifelong Journey, an epic drama chronicling China’s unprecedented transformation in over...
View ArticleTelling Details
NEW PUBLICATION Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature by Jiwei Xiao March 10, 2022 Book Description: What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is “reading...
View ArticleLu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics
New Publication Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics: Nothingness and the Power of Self-Transcendence By Wenjin Cui This book explores an extraordinary case of affirmative biopolitics through the study of...
View ArticleLiterature in the Time of Contagions–cfp
CFP: “Literature in the Time of Contagions,” a special section in CLTT (Chinese Literature and Thought Today) Contagious diseases such as tuberculosis, AIDS, and the current COVID-19 have been...
View ArticleChinese Lianhuanhua in Translation
The ReadChina project is pleased to announce the launching of a webpage containing a few Chinese lianhuanhua in translation, including images, Chinese original, English translation, and brief...
View ArticleRouge Street by Shuang Xuetao
New Publication Rouge Street, by Shuang Xuetao; translated by Jeremy Tiang NY: Metropolitan Books ISBN: 9781250835871 Introduced by Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker finalist novel Do Not Say We...
View ArticleSubjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction
New Publication Subjectivity and Realism in Modern Chinese Fiction: Hu Feng and Lu Ling. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2022. By Wang Xiaoping The questions of subjectivity and the literary style of realism,...
View ArticleQueer Chinese-Language Literature–cfp
Queer Chinese-Language Literature Call for Book Chapters In the past two decades, critical engagements with queer Chinese-language literature have brought attention to how non-normative desires,...
View ArticleGender bending in fiction and real life
Source: SupChina (3/25/22) Gender bending in China, in fiction and real life We asked journalist and culture writer Jin Zhao all about Chinese queer radio plays and homoerotic fiction, genres that have...
View Article“Into the Tiger’s Den”
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Julia Keblinska’s translation of “Into the Tiger’s Den,” volume 3 of a lianhuanhua (serial comic) adapted from Qu Bo’s novel Tracks in the...
View ArticleThe Father on the Moon
Source: Association for Chinese Animation Studies (3/24/22) The Father on the Moon (Yueqiu shang de fuqin), by Hu Xiaojiang. Guangzhou: Huacheng, 2021. By Sean Macdonald “Humanity is far from...
View ArticleLo Yi-chin event
Please join us at a Zoom routable with writer Lo Yi-chin (Winner of Dream of the Red Chamber Fiction Prize) and Professor Mingwei Song (Wellesley College) on diaspora and identity politics in fiction....
View ArticleSurvey of Indigenous Taiwanese Culture and Literature
Dear colleagues, I write to share the information of the online event organised by the University of Canterbury and sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies of Taiwan’s Central Library. Title of the...
View ArticleRMMLA Asian Comp Lit panels–cfp
Call for Papers: Asian Comparative Literature and Film Panels Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM October 13-15, 2022 Panel Chairs: Daniel Fried, University of...
View ArticleShuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature
We invite you to join us at a bilingual (English and Madarin) online forum titled “Moses on the Plain: Shuang Xuetao and New Dongbei Literature.” Speakers: 双雪涛 Shuang Xuetao (Writer) 程异 Jeremy Tiang...
View ArticleWong May interview
Source: The Irish Times (3/30/22) Wong May interview: A transnational and constantly surprising thinker ‘I am only interested in things I cannot do, that is the thrill of poetry,’ says prize-winning...
View ArticleMade in Censorship
Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film By Thomas Chen Columbia University Press, 2022 The violent suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations is thought...
View ArticlePaper Republic newsletter 12
Duck! Here comes your erratic, out of the blue newsletter on all things Chinese lit in translation. Now, I know what you’re thinking, it hasn’t been a month since the last one. But bear with us, we’re...
View ArticleWriting poetry in the workshop of the world
Source: Jacobin (4/26/22) How China’s Labor Migrants Write Poetry in the Workshop of the World BY MAGHIEL VAN CREVEL The labor of hundreds of millions of rural-to-urban migrants has spurred China’s...
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