PEN 2023 Manifesto on Literary Translation
PEN recently published a manifesto on translation that should be of use and interest to MCLC members: https://pen.org/report/translation-manifesto/ Here’s an excerpt from the call to action:...
View ArticleYoung China review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Pu Wang’s review of Young China: National Rejuvenation and the Bildungsroman, 1900-1959, by Mingwei Song. The review appears below and at its...
View ArticleNew RCT website
Dear readers and colleagues, We are delighted to announce that a new Research Center for Translation (RCT) website has been launched. You may now visit our new digital home at https://rct.cuhk.edu.hk/....
View ArticleLu Xun on mothers
Source: The China Project (5/14/23) A tribute to mothers How do we pay homage to mothers who have lost a child? Lu Xun did so by publicizing their sacrifices. By Eileen J. Cheng Lǔ Xùn 鲁迅, pen name of...
View ArticleBabel of Chinese SF: A Reading Group
Chinese SF in translation-May Session-“Starship: Library” by Jiang Bo and translated by Xuetitng Ni Babel of Chinese SF: A Reading Group We are a monthly online meet-up that reads, shares and discusses...
View ArticleInto the Desert review
Source: World Literature 世界文学 (forthcoming in the bilingual journal World Literature accessible online at http://xuemo.cn/en/en_search.asp?q=World+Literature&t=1) “Journey to Spiritualism in the...
View ArticleKong Yiji memes
Source: BBC News (6/11/23) Kong Yiji: The memes that lay bare China’s youth disillusionment By Grace Tsoi, BBC News, Hong Kong “Our generation has no expectations,” says 24-year-old Yin. The medical...
View ArticleState of poetry
I went to China in April, for a residence as poet at the Shangyuan Art Museum near Beijing, not far from Huairou. Came back to Austria in May, will go back there in August or early September. I have...
View ArticleInterview with Tsering Yangzom Lama
Source: China Digital Times (6/19/23) Interview: Tsering Yangzom Lama on Colonialism, Exile, and the Importance of Listening to Tibetans’ Stories By Sophie Beach Tsering Yangzom Lama was born in Nepal...
View ArticleFood Glorious Food!
A feast of translated stories about food launches Friday 23rd on Paper Republic This Friday Paper Republic will release the 9th Read Paper Republic series: Food Glorious Food! RPR is a free online...
View ArticleNew additions to online archive of unofficial poetry
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the digital collection of unofficial poetry journals from China at Leiden University Libraries, the online archive of a groundbreaking cultural...
View ArticleJin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex
New Publication Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023), by PAUL B. FOSTER Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex is...
View Article‘Beijing Sprawl’ review
Source: The China Project (6/23/23) Jogging everywhere and nowhere: Xu Zechen’s ‘Beijing Sprawl’ In this collection of nine interconnected short stories, characters are constantly moving without really...
View ArticleDear Chrysanthemums review
Source: Mekong Review 8, 31 (May-July 2023) No Fragile Flowers, These By Christina Cook Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s novel Dear Chrysanthemums offers a provocative look at the defining events of the past...
View ArticlePrism 20.1
New Publication Prism Volume 20, Number 1 (March 01, 2023) Read This Issue ARTICLES Translatability and Transmediality: Chinese Poetry in/and the World By Yunte Huang and Hangping Xu Ways of Reading...
View ArticleHealing–cfp
Call for Participants/Papers for a panel “Healing in Chinese Philosophies, Literature, and Religions” In-person presentations at the AAS 2024 Annual Conference, March 14-17, 2024 in Seattle, Washington...
View ArticleChinese SF in Translation July 2023 session
Chinese SF in Translation-July Session-“Upstart” by Lu Ban “Upstart”/《新贵》by Lu Ban 鲁般 Translated by Blake Stone-Banks Clarkesworld, no. 195 (December 2022) [The English version of this story is...
View ArticleLiang Hong’s ‘The Sacred Clan’
Source: The China Project (6/30/23) ‘The Sacred Clan’: Liang Hong turns to fiction to explore rural China Realism and the supernatural mix in Liang Hong’s “The Sacred Clan,” a collection of short...
View ArticleNew Trends in Late Qing Literature–cfp
Dear MCLC list members, I am organizing a panel on “New Trends in Late Qing Literature” for the AAS Annual Meeting in Seattle, 14-17 March 2024. I am looking for papers that present new research and/or...
View ArticleAt Home in Nature
The First Prism Monograph Supplement Book Launch We are delighted to announce the publication of Prism’s first supplemental issue At Home in Nature: Technology, Labour, and Critical Ecology in Modern...
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