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Beijing Sprawl a book by Zechen Xu, Eric Abrahamsen, and Jeremy Tiang
Zechen Xu (Author) Eric Abrahamsen (Translator) Jeremy Tiang (Translator) & 1 more FORMAT Paperback$17.95$16.69(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Description Muyu, a seventeen-year-old from a small village, came to Beijing for his piece of the dream: money, love, a good life. But in the city, daily life for him and his friends--purveyors of fake IDs and counterfeit papers--is a precarious balance of struggle and guile.
2022 Roll Call of Published Translations from Chinese into English
Welcome to the 2022 list of literary works translated from Chinese into English. There is the usual eclectic mix listed below – from scifi to crime, to all other types of good and readable fiction. We have included poetry too, and children’s and young adult fiction. If anyone has any entries to add, please let us know at info@paper-republic.org and we’ll add them. Similarly with star reviews and other newsy items.
Four Poems by 玉珍 Yu Zhen
Read Paper Republic – A Month of Women Poets by Yu Zhen, translated by David Haysom Yu Zhen’s work is rooted in the rural setting of Hunan’s Yanling mountains. Drawing on the pastoral tradition while resisting the platitudes of poverty, she writes poems that are lyrical, occasionally rhapsodic, but lucid and sharp in their observational detail.
Wu Ang - Four Poems
Read Paper Republic – A Month of Women Poets by Wu Ang, translated by Alice Xiang Wu Ang, one of China's most notable contemporary poets and authors, was born in Fujian Province in 1974. She later attended Fudan University, and attained a postgraduate degree in contemporary Chinese fiction at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In addition to being a poet and novelist, Wu Ang is also known for her work as a former journalist and columnist.
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For Kate Briggs, the translator is a “producer of relations” – between herself and the translated text; between herself and the writer she is translating; between herself and her translation. And there is the reader, of course, who becomes entangled in all these relations, while giving rise to new ones. This dynamic is intensified when translating poets, who are ingenious at forming relations.
Paper Republic Guide to Contemporary Chinese Literature
Paper Republic's definitive guide to contemporary Chinese literature in translation features detailed biographical entries covering almost 100 of the most important writers working in the Chinese language today, from Anni Baby to Zhang Yueran, by way of Nobel Prize-winner Mo Yan.
2021 Roll Call of Published Translations from Chinese into English
There’s good and bad news this year. The good news is that books translated from Chinese have won an encouragingly wide selection of translation prizes and awards. For the first time, we have listed them below in different categories: prizes, awards and ‘other successes’. The not-so-good news is that, as in previous years, women writers and women poets are far less well-represented than men.
Better Late Than Never - News #14
Hello again! You must have been champing at the bit to receive this next issue of our newsletter. Well you need wait no longer. It's been a busy time for the PR management team, what with the delights that were the Aberdeen Festival of Chinese Translation and Bristol Translates as well as our working toward some big announcements we can make soon. Watch this space.
One Less Than A Baker's Dozen - News #12
I'm going to start off with the reminder this week: you can subscribe here to receive this newsletter straight into your inbox every fortnight! And if you are already signed up, please check your junk/spam/trash folder on Tuesday evening in case the email hasn't arrived yet. Now for the news: first of all I'd like to point you to all the poetry that has been dug up from the archives or newly published online in commemoration of a certain anniversary this month.
Sign Up Here - News #11
A less busy edition this time around but the two stories, one from Hai Fan (tr. Jeremy Tiang), the other from Leung Lee-chi (tr. Jennifer Feeley), as well as the stacks of reviews, all for your reading pleasure, more than make up for it.
Dinosaur relics named after science fiction writer Liu Cixin
Dinosaur relics named after science fiction writer Liu Cixin http://english.eastday.com/auto/n917362/u1ai8545872.html A new kind of bird-footed dinosaur footprint was discovered in Gulin county, Southwest China's Sichuan province and named for Chinese science-fiction writer Liu Cixin, to honor his contribution to raising public interest in science. The Liu Cixin Caririchnium
2020 Roll Call of Published Translations from Chinese
By Nicky Harman, published December 17, 2020, 12:35a.m. 2020: torrid times. Not all of the ones on our 2020 Forthcoming Translations (posted in December 2019) made it into publication this year, but a number of translations from Chinese have still come out. Kudos to writers, translators and publishers alike! Prizes The Newman Prize for Chinese Literature is awarded biennially in recognition of outstanding achievement in prose or poetry that best captures the human condition.
2020 Roll Call of Published Translations from Chinese
By Nicky Harman, published December 17, 2020, 12:35a.m. 2020: torrid times. Not all of the ones on our 2020 Forthcoming Translations (posted in December 2019) made it into publication this year, but a number of translations from Chinese have still come out. Kudos to writers, translators and publishers alike! Prizes The Newman Prize for Chinese Literature is awarded biennially in recognition of outstanding achievement in prose or poetry that best captures the human condition.
The Unspeakable Bi
The idea of ‘untranslatable words’ is very nice. It’s a token of value; it adds a touch of solemn mystery to the work of translation, which otherwise consists mostly of nose-scratching, window-staring, and finding something to weight the book down with. But look, you see? We also have an ineffable something; a tragic ideal; we’re not simply pulling a plow. Sometimes I think there’s actually such a thing as an untranslatable word, sometimes I don’t.
Interviews with Chinese Women Writers, 2019
Most readers nowadays, asked to name a contemporary Chinese writer, could manage at least one. But the odds are that it will be a man. In these interviews, we explore how Chinese women authors from mainland China see themselves and their status. In recent decades in mainland China, there have been vast improvements in standards of living and personal freedoms (to choose one's higher education and career, and to travel, for instance) and a small number of women writers have flourished.
一周一句 Sunday Sentence #6
By Jack Hargreaves, published July 4, 2020, 9:52a.m. Part of: Sunday Sentence This week's Sunday Sentence can be found on the first page of 《北妹》 by Sheng Keyi 盛可以 (2004), translated by Shelly Bryant as Northern Girls (2012). Please input your translation in the comments box at the bottom of the page.
一周一句 Sunday Sentence #2
By Jack Hargreaves, published June 6, 2020, 3:55a.m. For this week of Sunday Sentence, we have something entirely different: a big announcement taken from page 118 of Yan Ge's 颜歌《我们家》(2013), released in 2018 as The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, translated by Nicky Harman. Please input your translation in the comments box at the bottom of the page.
In Search of New Team Members: A Call to Arms
By Eric Abrahamsen, published March 4, 2020, 3:30p.m. Paper Republic has moved into a new era. Our mission is to promote Chinese literature in English translation, focussing on new writing from contemporary Chinese writers, and we recently registered as a charity in the UK, registration number 1182259. New era, new ambitions. We're growing, and we need new people to join our non-profit management team.
Silk Road Update: GoogleTranslate Now Does Uyghur
By Bruce Humes, published February 27, 2020, 8:46p.m. GoogleTranslate offers translation to/from several of China's indigenous languages, the latest being Uyghur. Others are Kazakh, Korean, Kyrgyz and Mongolian. Turkmen and Tatar have also just joined the club -- and Turkish had long been available -- so Google Translate is doing a decent job of adding Turkic languages. But in terms of written scripts used by a large number of PRC citizens, one stands out as missing on this list: Tibetan.
Job Posting: Pathlight Managing Editor
Job Posting: Pathlight Managing Editor By Eric Abrahamsen, published January 23, 2018, 7:29p.m. Pathlight Magazine, a Paper Republic publication, is looking for a new Managing Editor! The position is about half time (though sometimes busier than others), and based in Beijing. You will be working together (mostly remotely) with Paper Republic editors, and with People’s Literature Magazine, our Chinese partners. Responsibilities include: Keeping the magazine to a quarterly publication schedule.
GLLI (11) - Ken Liu on Chinese Science Fiction
The following post, part of our Global Literature in Libraries Initiative series, is an email interview with Ken Liu, author and translator of science fiction. Apart from his own fiction Ken is best known around here as the translator of volumes I and III of the Three Body Problem, together with Joel Martinsen, and Clarkesworld magazine's in-depth interest in Chinese science fiction.
A Bad Year for China
2016 is, everyone agrees, a bad year for China. Usually, what a bad year consists of is everyone telling each other “It’s a bad year here in China”. But there’s good evidence that this year is objectively worse than most. First, there’s Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption crusade, which might be a righteous attempt to return the government to the strait and narrow, but also might be a thinly-disguised campaign to rid the official ranks of the less-than-loyal – and, sadly, is probably both.
2015 translations from Chinese - another bumper crop
For the last three years we have produced a list of Chinese to English translations (books only) published over the year. Here is our list for 2015. As always, if we’ve missed any, please add them below. (Previous lists are here: 2012, 2013, 2014). We have also added most of these titles to our list on Goodreads.
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3 The crimson mothers live in a crimson sea. We, island-like, still live on the city’s island. In January’s cold blast, we lean out of our windows. Quarter past three in the afternoon, and everyone in the street has a coating of frost on their lips. If they open their mouths even a little, they cannot close them. ‘Everyone has become a silent, broken bridge. A musician stands on every bridge, eyes lowered, surrounded by young female flesh, his...
Opinion | The Real Censors of China (Published 2015)
Op-Ed Contributor BEIJING — The dissident Chinese writer is an apocryphal beast. There are Chinese dissidents, of course, and some of them even write, but romantic images of Soviet-style repression — hostile state censors redacting novels with a red pen, writers forced to choose between humiliating submission and courageous defiance — do not apply in China today.
Introducing "Read Paper Republic"
I suspect that some of you out there have, from time to time, wondered: “but what do you people at Paper Republic actually do all day long? Surely you can’t survive by snarky literary judgments alone?
Read A Second Pregnancy, 1980
"Having a girl is as good as having a boy, Daughters carry on the family line too." Photo: Xinjiang, 2010, by Dave Haysom On 29 October it was announced that China’s One Child Policy would come to an end. The policy had been in place for 35 years, since 1979. In the last few years there have been a number of novels referring to the One Child Policy and its impact, for example, Mo Yan’s Frog, and Ma Jian’s The Dark Road.
The New York Times
BEIJING — Last Wednesday I tried to close my bank account. I won’t pretend that the Bank of China is the most Orwellian institution in the world, but in terms of human suffering inflicted by bureaucracy, it has to make the long list. I have learned to dread my constant visits to the local branch, where I wait in line behind 40 retirees, have my passport photocopied and learn from a preternaturally calm teller that whatever it is I would like to do, it can’t be done today.
What's in This Word?
BEIJING â Anyone whoâs studied Chinese for more than a few months becomes a folk etymologist. Look: the Chinese character for âgoodâ combines âwomanâ and âchildâ! China must be a society of patriarchal homebodies! Anyone whoâs studied Chinese for more than a few years tends to give it up. The history and evolution of Chinese characters is such a messy accretion of historical sediment and false cognates that even scholars of Chinese take its etymology with a grain of salt.
The New York Times
Shiho Fukada for The New York TimesHan Han, the Chinese writer and blogger, in Shanghai in February 2010. BEIJING â Three weeks after Han Han, China’s most prominent blogger, published three controversial blog posts in which he casts a sullen eye on Revolution, Democracy and Freedom, the online debate has slid into absurdity.
Cindy M. Carter
worldcat | contact Cindy M. Carter is a Beijing-based American translator of Chinese fiction and film. Since coming to China in 1996, she has translated over 50 award-winning independent Chinese films and documentaries, dozens of scripts, short stories, essays and poems and 2 novels. She is currently the in-house translator and editor at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in 798 Art District, Beijing. Fiction Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke. 2011.
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