Wang Wen-hsing dies at 84
Source: Focus Taiwan (10/3/23) Taiwanese novelist Wang Wen-hsing dies at 84 By Chiu Tzu-yin and Matthew Mazzetta Taipei, Oct. 3 (CNA) Taiwanese writer Wang Wen-hsing (王文興), best known for his 1973...
View ArticleCLT2 54.1-2
Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce that Chinese Literature and Thought Today (CLTT) v54 n1&2 (2023) has been published and we are running a free access period of this issue during the next...
View ArticleLong prison sentence for Yalqun Rozi
Source: The China Project (10/5/23) Long prison sentence for book-loving Uyghur who tried to preserve history, culture for kids In January 2018, China sentenced writer, critic, and educator Yalqun Rozi...
View ArticleGu Junzheng chapter–cfp
CFP: 顾均正 (Gu Junzheng)’s Story “Xing Bian” [“Sex Change”] (1940 Kexue Quwei) Chinese scholars are invited to write a chapter on a story by 顾均正 (Gu Junzheng) called “Xing Bian” [“Sex Change”] (1940...
View ArticleChinese Revolution in Practice
New Publication Chinese Revolution in Practice: From Movement to the State, by Guo Wu Routledge, 2023 Description: This book employs multiple case studies to explore how the Chinese communist...
View ArticleTeahouse
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Claire Conceison’s translation of Teahouse, Meng Jinghui’s radical adaptation of Lao She’s famous drama. The translation includes images from...
View ArticleXi Jinping Thought on Culture
Source: China Media Project (10/13/23) Xi Jinping’s Cathedral of Pretense With the addition of a grandiose new buzzword in China for culture and civilization, it may seem that a towering future is on...
View ArticleXi Jinping Thought on Culture (1)
Excellent piece, excellent analysis. Where are all the China anthropologists, who should all be dissecting this? By the way, I wonder if Xi’s wrongheaded and dangerous idea that culture is somehow...
View ArticleThe Narrow Cage review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Roy Chan’s review of The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales, by Vasily Eroshenko and translated by Adam Kuplowsky. The review appears...
View ArticleThe ‘Rhythm’ of Revolution talk
The “Rhythm” of Revolution: Body Politics and the Voice in the Leftist Poetry Recitation Join the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for a lecture featuring Ling Kang, Associate...
View ArticleHK Lit and the Taiwanese Encounter
New Publication Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, “Hong Kong Literature and the Taiwanese Encounter: Literary Magazines, Popular Literature and Shih Shu-Ching’s Hong Kong Stories.” Cultural History 12/2 (Open...
View ArticleChina’s Online Literature talk
Online Talk: China’s Online Literature and the Problem of Preservation Dr. Michel Hockx Thursday, November 16, 2023 6:00-7:30p.m. CST Virtual event held on Zoom. Please register to attend:...
View ArticleFiona Sze-Lorrain on Chinese identity and diaspora
Fiona Sze-Lorrain, in conversation with Biswamit Dwibedy, reflecting on the complicated fabric of Chinese identity and diaspora in her debut novel Dear Chrysanthemums. The talk was held on October 24...
View ArticleUrban Scenes
New Publication Urban Scenes, by Liu Na’ou; translated and introduced by Yaohua Shi and Judith M. Armory Cambria Press, 2023 More than eighty years after his death, Liu Na’ou (1905—1940) remains a...
View ArticleBook of Wreckage wins Taiwan Literature Award
Source: Taipei Times (11/4/23) ‘Book of Wreckage’ wins top prize PAINFUL MEMORIES: This year’s TLA winner was chosen for its depiction of the White Terror era. It was also the first time New Bud...
View ArticleI Have No Enemies review
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of Jeffrey Kinkley’s review of I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo, by Perry Link and Wu Dazhi. The review appears below and at...
View ArticleWriter delivers cold, hard fiction
Source: China Daily (11/17/23) Writer delivers cold, hard fiction By Yang Yang The 2023 Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize has been awarded to 29-year-old author Yang Zhihan [杨知寒], for her collection...
View ArticleTranslating Chinese Internet Literature–cfp
Call for Contributions for an Edited Volume Translating Chinese Internet Literature: Global Adaptation and Circulation Publisher: Routledge (Routledge Studies in Chinese Translation) Deadline for...
View ArticleWorldconned
Source: Uyghur Times (12/3/23) Worldconned: How China Co-Opted Sci-Fi’s Crown Jewel Amidst the Uyghur Genocide By Danielle Ranucci Last month, Chengdu, China hosted the 81st World Science Fiction...
View ArticleInterview with Yu Hua
Source: The Paris Review 246 (Winter 2023) Yu Hua, The Art of Fiction No. 261 Interviewed by Michael Berry Yu Hua was born in 1960. He grew up in Haiyan County in the Zhejiang province of eastern...
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