Questioning Borders
NEW PUBLICATION: Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures in China and Taiwan, by Robin Visser I’m pleased to announce that my new book, Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures in China and Taiwan (Columbia UP,...
View ArticleTaiwanese Literature as World Literature review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Lingchei Letty Chen’s review of Taiwanese Literature as World Literature, edited by Pei-yin Lin and Wen-chi Li. The review appears below and...
View ArticleMade in Censorship review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Jeremy Brown’s review of Made in Censorship: The Tiananmen Movement in Chinese Literature and Film, by Thomas Chen. The review appears below...
View ArticleShi shenghuo/Poemlife site to close
The website Shi shenghuo 诗生活 (www.poemlife.com) will close on August 12. Here’s the announcement. Shi shenghuo was founded in 2000. Through a community effort sustained for over twenty years, it has...
View ArticleWaiting To Be Arrested at Night
Source: NPR (8/1/23) ‘Waiting To Be Arrested At Night’ is the story of a Uyghur poet’s escape By Emily Feng, NPR Tahir Hamut Izgil is one of the best-known living Uyghur poets. He left Xinjiang amid a...
View ArticleMei Niang’s Long-Lost Writings
NEW PUBLICATION Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings: Young Lady’s Collection By Norman Smith. Routledge, 2023. In 1944, the novel Xie (Crabs) by Mei Niang (1916-2013) was honored with the Japanese...
View ArticleBabel of Chinese SF Aug. event
Babel of Chinese SF August Event Lu Hang on “Tongji Bridge:” When Tradition Meets Robotics To join us, send an email to babelofchinesesf@gmail.com for the event link! Beijing Time: 20:00, August 11,...
View ArticleManchuria, Literature and Culture 1900+ website launch
Manchuria, Literature and Culture 1900+ website launch https://dartgo.org/manchuria-website-launch Fri, Aug 25, 2023 3:00-4:00 PM EDT on Zoom Hosted by: Ronald Suleski (Suffolk University, US) with...
View ArticleTie Ning wins PEN Translates grant
Source: English Pen (8/22/23) China’s premier female author Tie Ning wins PEN Translates grant from English Pen The Buttonless Red Shirt (没有纽扣的红衬衫), her bestselling novella, will be translated from...
View ArticleQuestioning the Chinese Model
New Publication Questioning the Chinese Model: Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China By Zhansui Yu University of Toronto Press, 2022 DESCRIPTION In the early twenty-first...
View ArticleFor a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse
New Publication For a Splendid Sunny Apocalypse By Jiang Tao; Translator Josh Stenber In these melancholy and self-mocking poems — populated with youths and elders, cellphones and televisions — Jiang...
View ArticleA Certain Justice review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Paul Katz’s review of A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination, by Haiyan Lee. The review appears below and at...
View ArticleLiang Hong and Liu Zhenyun in the UK
Liang Hong and Liu Zhenyun in the UK for the Sinoist Books Chinese author roadshow Sinoist Author Roadshow 2023 10–18 October This October join us in for a UK-spanning roadshow featuring two of China’s...
View ArticleOne Man Talking
New Publication Paul Bevan and Susan Daruvala (eds.), One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929-1939 (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2023). Shao Xunmei, poet, essayist,...
View ArticleParis in the Springtime
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Paul Bevan’s introduction to and translation of “Paris in the Springtime,” by Shao Xunmei. This translation appears in conjunction with the...
View ArticleOn the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
NEW PUBLICATION On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China By Margaret Hillenbrand Columbia University Press, 2023 $35.00/£30.00 paper $140/£117.00 hardcover $34.99/£30.00 ebook Enter Code: CUP20...
View ArticleStates of Disconnect review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Wenjin Cui’s review of States of Disconnect: The China-India Literary Relation in the Twentieth Century, by Adhira Mangalagiri. The review...
View ArticleI Love Bill and Other Stories
NEW PUBLICATION I Love Bill and Other Stories, by Wang Anyi Translated by Todd Foley Foreword by Xudong Zhang Cornell East Asia Series ISBN13: 9781501771071 ISBN10: 1501771078 Publication date:...
View ArticleHospital review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Mingwei Song’s review of Hospital, by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry. The review appears below and at its online home:...
View ArticleFear of Seeing
NEW PUBLICATION Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction By Mingwei Song Columbia University Press (2023) A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized...
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