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Showing posts with label Chinese fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese fiction. Show all posts
Wednesday 15 June 2022

In Praise of Readers' Reviews: The Story of the Stone on Goodreads

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  Nicky Harman peruses Goodreads for reviews of a classic Chinese novel. As a translator, I’ve always been fascinated by how readers react t...
Tuesday 10 May 2022

Translating literature – not such a lonely business after all

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  Nicky Harman writes: Literary translation, like writing, is traditionally a one-woman or one-man job. At most, two people might work toget...
Tuesday 22 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part II

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworth...
Wednesday 16 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part I

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy...
Friday 15 October 2021

Indie Spotlight: Historical Fiction - When you say ‘authentic’ . . .

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Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...
Friday 6 August 2021

Serve the People! by Yan Lianke - A Novel of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

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The Cultural Revolution has been a taboo subject in China, but confusing and forgotten to Westerners. The political upheavals instigated by ...
Tuesday 29 June 2021

Indie Spotlight: A Tale of Two Series - How Author Jeannie Lin Took Took Her Asian Steampunk Series from Traditional Publishing to Independent Publishing Success

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Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...
Sunday 6 June 2021

The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa

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The Girl Who Played Go is a historical novel by Chinese author Shan Sa, originally published in French, translated into English. With that ...
Wednesday 21 April 2021

The Mountain Whisperer – Another novel to add to the Jia Pingwa canon, reviewed by Nicky Harman

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Jia Pingwa, ‘China’s master story-teller’ as the launch event for   Mountain Whisperer  dubbed him, remains relatively unknown to the Englis...
Tuesday 13 April 2021

Indie Spotlight: Cozy Mystery Author Anne R. Tan

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Indie Spotlight is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy b...
Wednesday 4 December 2019

Prizes and parties...

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Some end-of-year thoughts from Nicky Harman In my more pessimistic moments, I feel Chinese novels translated into English are a hard s...
Wednesday 23 October 2019

My Travels in Ding Yi. Nicky Harman looks at the latest translated novel from Shi Tiesheng

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One of the most interesting novels to come out in translation this year is My Travels in Ding Yi (ACA Publishing, 2019) by Shi Tiesheng (...
Wednesday 25 September 2019

The History of a Place in a Single Object, with Multiple Variations

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Nicky Harman looks at translating tools, and it's more fascinating than you'd think. It’s not often that I, as a translator, get...
Wednesday 26 June 2019

Nicky Harman interviews Jeremy Tiang, Singaporean writer, translator and playwright

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Photo credit: Edward Hill Nicky: When you were growing up, what were the first Chinese-language stories you came across, and what drew y...
Wednesday 27 March 2019

A New Kid on the Block for Literary Nonprofits

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Paper Republic is proud to announce that it is now a UK-registered charity no. 1182259 . Paper Republic was set up by Eric Abra...
Wednesday 27 February 2019

My chance to talk for an hour about Chinese literature -- with an excellent interviewer

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I had slightly mixed feelings when Georgia de Chamberet and I began our podcast for Bookblast . On the one hand, it was a great opportun...
Friday 1 February 2019

Paper Republic 2018 roll call of translations

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Paper Republic promotes Chinese literature in English translation. It focusses on new writing from contemporary Chinese writers. Balanced ...
Wednesday 30 January 2019

Broken Wings, Jia Pingwa's novel about a trafficked woman, in translation

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              Nicky Harman writes : I have just finished translating Broken Wings , a novel by Jia Pingwa about h uman trafficki...
Wednesday 12 December 2018

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A Carnival of Translation – Translators and their writers For this blog, Nicky Harman interviews Natascha Bruce , who has been on...
Friday 16 November 2018

Obituary for Louis Cha, by John Minford

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Louis Cha, or Zha Liangyong, (查良鏞), pen-name Jin Yong (金庸), OBE, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, novelist, journalist, entrepreneur and pu...