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Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label translation. Show all posts
Tuesday, 11 April 2023

Jin Ping Mei rides again

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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...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Nicky Harman reviews two new translations of Lu Xun

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Lu Xun  鲁 迅  (1881 - 1936)  is the leading figure of modern Chinese literature of the early twentieth-century. He pioneered writing in verna...
Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Bridging two cultures. Nicky Harman interviews London-based, Beijing-born Alicia Liu of SingingGrass

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  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...
Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Being upbeat about being downbeat: Nicky Harman reviews "I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokpokki"

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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...
Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Mesándel Virtusio Arguelles, an introduction to his Filipino poetry in translation

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  Kristine Ong Muslim recently translated Hollow (original title, Guwang), a collection of some of Arguelles's early poems written in ...
Wednesday, 17 November 2021

‘Shen Yang does not legally exist.’ Nicky Harman reflects on a memoir by a victim of China’s One-Child Policy, and its unexpected impact on readers.

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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’...
Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Translating together, part 2.

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 Nicky Harman continues the story of a co-translation project: Jia Pingwa's new novel, The Sojourn Teashop ................................
Wednesday, 15 September 2021

More than one cook improves the broth. Nicky Harman gives a shout-out for literary team translation.

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There are famous historical precedents for translators working as a team. This is especially true in religious texts. One of the greatest pr...
Wednesday, 16 June 2021

Making the effortful seem effortless: Nicky Harman interviews this year’s winner of the Bai Meigui Translation Prize 2021, Francesca Jordan

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It has always struck me that the sign of a good translation is that it should read as if doing it was easy. Of course, I know that is an ill...
Tuesday, 16 February 2021

Julia Lovell's new translation of Monkey King: Journey to the West is a tour de force

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  STOP PRESS: FOR PAPER REPUBLIC'S EXCLUSIVE PODCAST WITH JULIA LOVELL TALKING ABOUT HER TRANSLATION, CLICK HERE ........................