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Showing posts with label Chinese writers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese writers. Show all posts
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 ...
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 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 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...
Wednesday 14 November 2018

BALESTIER PRESS, THE ART OF IDEAS — IN TRANSLATION

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You think being a small indie publisher is challenging? Then trying being a small indie publisher who focuses on translations from ...
Wednesday 17 October 2018

On translation, by Nicky Harman

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Nicky Harman, Yan Ge, Natascha Bruce Let’s talk literary translation,  or how to keep audiences riveted by swearing at them Last w...
Friday 12 October 2018

The Deer and the Cauldron, guest post by John Minford

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Between 1997 and 2002, John Minford, now Emeritus Professor of Chinese at the Australian National University, brought out a three-volume t...
Wednesday 19 September 2018

On translation by Nicky Harman

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Spot the authors: Jia Pingwa, Mo Yan and Tie Ning are in the front row. Also in the picture are Alai, Yu Hua, Lu Min and many many others....
Friday 18 May 2018

Student bookshelf: influencing women's behaviour in Tang China

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Aurelia Paul is a senior year student at Boston University, studying comparative literature and Chinese. In her fortnightly column Student...
Wednesday 21 March 2018

Off to The Script Road, the Macau litfest

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  Yao Feng in conversation with Han Dong, March 2018 The Script Road in Macau has always had a reputation for being a good place to ge...
Monday 12 March 2018

Student bookshelf. The DaodeJing and the Zuangzi by Aurelia Paul

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Aurelia Paul is a senior year student at Boston University, studying comparative literature and Chinese. In her fortnightly column  Student ...
Monday 5 March 2018

Lover, photographer, gun-runner, spy: Xiao Bai's literary spy thriller French Concession

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The Asian literary spy genre isn’t a defined genre as such, but perhaps it should be.  Xiao Bai’s French Concession stands in a solid pa...