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Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese. Show all posts
Wednesday, 16 August 2023

The Peking Express by James M. Zimmerman

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In 1923, the Blue Express, a luxury train also known as the Peking Express, departed from Shanghai, chugging northward to Peking. On the nig...
Tuesday, 10 May 2022

Translating literature – not such a lonely business after all

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  Nicky Harman writes: Literary translation, like writing, is traditionally a one-woman or one-man job. At most, two people might work toget...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part II

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworth...
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part I

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy...
Monday, 5 July 2021

The China Mission by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan - Chinese History at a Crossroads

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The question of “Who Lost China to the Communists?” became a political flashpoint in American politics. It gave rise to the McCarthy Era and...
Sunday, 5 July 2020

The Bitter Peace by Philip S. Jowett - Conflict in China 1928-1937

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Chinese history has long been ignored in the West, but a few spotlights do shine out from time to time on certain events, even if only to ...
Wednesday, 27 May 2020

How Paper Republic ended up leading what is possibly the world’s biggest collaborative translation

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Nicky Harman writes about translating Chinese authors' reflections on Covid19, post-lockdown. At the risk of blowing my (or at least, ...
Wednesday, 26 February 2020

In Homage to the first Buddhist translators, and Martha Cheung

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Nicky Harman on “ Buddhism ” a wonderful exhibition in London’s British Library displaying Buddhist art and literature from all over Ea...
Wednesday, 4 December 2019

Prizes and parties...

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Some end-of-year thoughts from Nicky Harman In my more pessimistic moments, I feel Chinese novels translated into English are a hard s...
Wednesday, 25 September 2019

The History of a Place in a Single Object, with Multiple Variations

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Nicky Harman looks at translating tools, and it's more fascinating than you'd think. It’s not often that I, as a translator, get...
Wednesday, 26 June 2019

Nicky Harman interviews Jeremy Tiang, Singaporean writer, translator and playwright

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Photo credit: Edward Hill Nicky: When you were growing up, what were the first Chinese-language stories you came across, and what drew y...
Wednesday, 27 March 2019

A New Kid on the Block for Literary Nonprofits

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Paper Republic is proud to announce that it is now a UK-registered charity no. 1182259 . Paper Republic was set up by Eric Abra...
Wednesday, 27 February 2019

My chance to talk for an hour about Chinese literature -- with an excellent interviewer

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I had slightly mixed feelings when Georgia de Chamberet and I began our podcast for Bookblast . On the one hand, it was a great opportun...
Friday, 8 February 2019

米兔. 米兔 / rice rabbit Chinese word of the year

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Following on from last week's post about the Oxford Dictionaries Hindi word of 2018 , Paper Republic have nominated their Chinese wor...