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

It has always struck me that the sign of a good translation is that it should read as if doing it was easy. Of course, I know that is an ill...

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

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I first came across Li Juan in 2016, when she featured in the Paper Republic post for LitHub online magazine, entitled ‘ Ten Chinese Women w...