Category Archives: Translation

Translation award vacant in Fifth Lu Xun Literary Prize

Posted on 2010-10-20 by Joel Martinsen

One laureate for poetry has a series of poems lauding women from Wuhan who light up the silver screen; the translation award is vacant this year.

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Translating for the masses

Posted on 2010-09-30 by Joel Martinsen

Sun Zhongxu explains literary translation; Zhao Guohua talks about two decades of film translation; and genre translator Yu Shi describes her work schedule.

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Wang Xiaofeng: Fang Zhouzi and China as a modern medieval state

Posted on 2010-09-04 by Julian

Bruno didn’t behave either (Wikipedia) In late July, “science cop” Fang Zhouzi, known for exposing academic and scientific fraud, was attacked by thugs wielding an iron hammer and anesthetic spray. The case has been widely reported in Chinese and western … Continue reading →

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Wang Li on mealtime hospitality

Posted on 2010-08-28 by Julian

Many consider Wang Li (1900-1986) to be the founder of modern Chinese linguistics. Along with other linguists, Wang Li developed a new Chinese framework of linguistic analysis, and after 1949, he worked extensively on reforming the Chinese writing system. In addition to his linguistic contributions, Wang Li also wrote several essays. Below is “Mealtime hospitality,” originally published in 1943.

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Haruki Murakami’s Chinese translators on emulating style

Posted on 2010-06-24 by Alice Xin Liu

Lin Shaohua (林少华) and Lai Ming-chu (赖明珠) talks about translating Murakami into Chinese and preserving his unique style.

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Julia Lovell on translating Lu Xun’s complete fiction: “His is an angry, searing vision of China”

Posted on 2009-11-11 by Alice Xin Liu

Julia Lovell teaches at the University of London’s Birkbeck College and has translated Serve the People by Yan Lianke and Lust; Caution by Eileen Chang amongst other Chinese literary works. Lovell’s new book of translation is modern fiction forefather Lu Xun’s The Real Story of Ah Q and Other Tales of China, published by Penguin. Danwei interviews Lovell.

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