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Jean Kwok’s Girl In Translation

Jean Kwok writes about the Asian American emigration experience. Her website describes the plot of Girl In Translation thus: “When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings.” For more, see Jeankwok.net.

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

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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Free residential workshop for literary translators

This March, British Book publishing giant Penguin is offering a free residential workshop to early- and mid-career literary translators who work in both English and Chinese. From their press release: Workshop sessions will be led by renowned sinologists and translators … Continue reading

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