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  Diasporic and Clan   are two volumes of short stories by the sinophone Singaporean writer Soon Ai Ling, translated, transcreated and adap...

When, years ago, I studied Chinese at Leeds University, there was a set of volumes that resided only in the stacks downstairs in the Brother...

  Owlish is the story of Professor Q, a university lecturer in the city of Nevers. He is not a happy man: his wife refuses intimacy with hi...

Lu Xun  鲁 迅  (1881 - 1936)  is the leading figure of modern Chinese literature of the early twentieth-century. He pioneered writing in verna...

  NH: Can you tell me briefly where you come from and how long you've been in the UK? Alicia Liu: I was born in Beijing and moved to t...

  What do cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast have in common? They’re all comfort foods that Alic...

It is all-too-easy to ridicule the translations of Chinese dishes that you see in restaurants. There’s an entire blog post from BoredPanda ...

I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki , by Baek Sehee, translated from Korean by Anton Hur. (Bloomsbury, 2022)   Baek Sehee  is a succe...

  Nicky Harman peruses Goodreads for reviews of a classic Chinese novel. As a translator, I’ve always been fascinated by how readers react t...

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

  Rather to my surprise, I found myself at a discussion of this very question at the Literary Translation Centre, in last week's London ...

Full disclosure: I’m devoting my blog this month to a personal project, The Paper Republic Guide To Contemporary Chinese Literature. Trans...

More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter (Balestier, 2021) is Shen Yang ’s story of growing up as an ‘excess-birth’ or ‘illegal’...

 Nicky Harman continues the story of a co-translation project: Jia Pingwa's new novel, The Sojourn Teashop ................................

There are famous historical precedents for translators working as a team. This is especially true in religious texts. One of the greatest pr...

I have taught many summer schools in translation, and I have run translation workshops online. But I have never, until last week, taught a...