Oooo Brendan O'Kane @bokane is going to be running an online introduction to premodern Chinese literature (in translation) for Outlier Linguistics, a chance to read the classics from 1000 BCE to the eighteenth century. Big big discount if you sign up before tomorrow: https://www.outlier-linguistics.com/products/intro-to-premodern-chinese-literature. #ChineseLiterature

This is the Wang Yin poem I was looking forward most to seeing in translation: "The English," from _A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts_, tr. Andrea Lingenfelter. #ChineseLiterature

Ooo, I really like this @SabinaKnight review of Julian Gewirtz's new book on the history of the Chinese 1980s AND his poetry collection _Your Face My Flag_, which gets into some of the power of the poet-historian/historian-poet: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-poet-and-the-historian-on-julian-gewirtzs-your-face-my-flag-and-never-turn-back/. It's a Very Poetry Turn essay (icymi: https://read.dukeupress.edu/prism/article/20/1/177/376316/The-Poetry-TurnWriting-Chinese-Cultural-Studies). #chineseliterature

Reading this interview between translator + translation scholar Wang Baorong and Julia Lovell about her Lu Xun volume, and at the end he really digs in! Brings the spicy conflicts endemic to the translator/editor relationship out into the open: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07374836.2014.931268 #chineseliterature

Watching a Pacific tropical storm as a very chilly fall starts early in Ithaca, thinking about this Ni Zhange poem, tr. me for my essay "The Poetry Turn: Writing Chinese Cultural Studies Between Empires" https://read.dukeupress.edu/prism/article/20/1/177/376316/The-Poetry-TurnWriting-Chinese-Cultural-Studies #ChineseLiterature

Open invitation to stop by the (very) fledgling Chinese Literature subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseLiterature/ where I've been dumping links to translated #ChineseLiterature.

Oh, man, these new Zang Di poems, tr. Eleanor Goodman: https://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/the-loquat-boy-elegies-for-my-son-zang-di/. A great poet at the height of his power and pain, a great translator with the license to write poetry onto the poetry. #ChineseLiterature

I just finished "White Horse" by Yan Ge, and it's a quick, engrossing read. I was eager to read this because I enjoyed her "Strange Beasts of China" so much earlier this year. Recommended! #bookstodon #amreading #booklove #chineseliterature #yalit

Chinese science fiction anthology "Sinopticon", which gathers diverse voices in the genre over the recent flourishing development of the last 30 years, including renown and new voices.

Curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni.
#Books #Literature
#ChineseLiterature #ScienceFiction

Chinese science fiction anthology "Sinopticon", which gathers diverse voices in the genre over the recent flourishing development of the last 30 years, including renown and new voices.

Curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni.
#Books #Literature
#ChineseLiterature #ScienceFiction

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LOVE this Haiyan Lee essay on the affirmative action decision -- a great work of legal analysis, US-China comparison, scholarly positionality, and humanist commitment. #ChineseLiterature

"The Longest Transitional Justice: An Immigrant Scholar Defends Affirmative Action"

https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/interventions/longest-transitional-justice-immigrant-scholar-defends-affirmative-action

Updated #Introduction. I’m from #Minneapolis but have been teaching #chineseliterature at #UVA for 13 years. My work is mainly about #modern #nonfiction such as #reportage and #essays in the early #20thcentury, but I’ve been branching into #documentaryfilm and revisiting #reportage. I also study #socialistculture particularly from the point of view of #affect and #desire. I’m trying hard to maintain #intermittentfasting, and I’m happy to discover all the #fountainpen nerds here!

Now available with a free author link (https://read.dukeupress.edu/prism/article/20/1/177/376316/The-Poetry-TurnWriting-Chinese-Cultural-Studies?guestAccessKey=3ef99f8a-2772-400a-925a-84cef7e2d06a): my article "The Poetry Turn: Writing Chinese Cultural Studies between Empires" in PRISM. It translates and discusses poet-scholars that work on Chinese literature and culture, and argues that when you're trapped between empires, you need the kind of subject formation that poems do best. The piece ends with a real plea to respect academic Chinglish as an aesthetic, intellectual, and futurist language. Enjoy! #ChineseLiterature

"Even though the cross may fall upon our shoulders, it does not hinder or deny us, because we believe deeply that it will be buried beneath the force of our flourishing lives.”
-- 陈墨, 1979.

Source: https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/3602797#page/1/mode/1up. #ChineseLiterature

“A place where wild grass doesn’t grow is a place devoid of flowers, and has no people, either.

That’s why it’s only when wild grass appears in the temples that we know nobody will ever kneel in this place again, that this place will become an exuberant garden overflowing with hundreds of types of flowers; wild grass is the proof of the sunshine and the spring wind." (#ChineseLiterature, 2/3)

#ChineseLiterature poetry scholar Maghiel van Crevel wrote a comprehensive introduction to the new wealth of contemporary underground Chinese poetry magazines that got posted to the archive: https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2023/06/22/new-additions-to-online-archive-of-unofficial-poetry/#more-46104. I have been digging into an anthology that I had only faintly heard of, the _Wild Grass Poetry Anthology_, which is a fascinating collection of Sichuanese avant-garde poetry from the 70s, 80s and 90s. I'll translate a chunk of the foreword:

Oh ho ho, the Leiden archive of unofficial Chinese poetry journals just made its annual update, 200+ new scans of poetry journals and anthologies that includes a bunch of queer work and a lot more worker's poetry: https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2023/06/octogenarian-underground-poets-political-language-turned-on-its-head-and-more-unofficial-poetry-from-china-in-digital-collections?fbclid=IwAR2X_HxlZewmaOzvtaX6RT_XQk8QBl6B3LqPibv0cXDb3g0vbBPExm03C1M. Archive is here, I'll post interesting stuff over the next few days: https://digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/unpo. #ChineseLiterature

Finally read some Can Xue, in Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping's excellent translation. She is a fairly prolific author, this book turned out to be the right place to start. It would be interesting to know more about the contexts of original publication and her reception in China -- some stories are designed as 'magazine writing' and the experimentalism is meeting a readership. Here's an extract from the title story. #ChineseLiterature #Bookstodon #CanXue #VendrediLecture https://yalebooksblog.co.uk/2021/04/09/i-live-in-the-slums-an-extract/

'"If a single university student cannot find a job, perhaps he is to blame. But unemployment among undergraduates is so high. Can we blame them all for not taking off Kong Yiji's long gown?" asked a user on the Quora-like platform Zhihu.

"A low salary is not the scariest thing. The lack of social welfare protection and opportunities to acquire new skills is," he added.
#ChineseLiterature
#LuXun #students #China https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-65425941

I contributed to Cha Magazine's act of Tiananmen remembrance, the Just Another Day project: https://chajournal.blog/2023/06/04/nick-another-day/. I wrote about my own public space and my own grief, but it's at heart a #ChineseLiterature piece about 6/4. Lots of people contributed and I'll pick some of my favorites out in a thread: