Bookstores Become Sites of Subtle Protest Against Xi Jinping
Chinese bookstore shelf arrangements rarely go viral—that is, unless they contain a hidden message...
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Word(s) of the Week: “Kong Yiji Literature” (孔乙己文学, Kǒng Yǐjǐ Wénxué)
“Kong Yiji literature” emerged as a self-deprecating meme among young Chinese netizens who joke that their academic credentials have made them “unemployable,” too overeducated or overqualified for the jobs currently available....
Translation: Narrative Account by a Wuhan Funeral Worker
Wuhan, the epicenter of the global COVID-19 pandemic, has in recent days lifted its ten-week lockdown, allowing residents to leave their homes and travel outside the city, and some businesses to reopen. Raymond Zhong and Vivian...
Fiction: “Lulu,” by Te-Ping Chen
The New Yorker this week features a piece of short fiction by Te-Ping Chen, drawing on her time as...
Translators Leave China Lost for Words
Dong Fangyu at China Daily writes that a shortage of competent translators is hampering Chinese...
Fiction as Detective Work: Interview with Yiyun Li
Yiyun Li came to the US from Beijing in 1996 to do a PhD in immunology at the University of Iowa,...
Benedict Cumberbatch is a Gay Erotic God in China
While the Chinese LGBT community faces widespread discrimination in real life, online culture has...
Publishers Try to Sell Chinese Fiction in Translation
At Bloomberg Businessweek, Christina Larson looks at the prospects for translated Chinese works in America. Currently, the flow into China of books translated from English and other foreign languages is much larger than the...
Internet Fiction: Please Pay My Bill
The following fictional short story is being widely circulated among Chinese bloggers, translated by CDT: “Please Pay My Bill” Today is the weekend and my high school classmates wanted to have a reunion in the...
The Olympic Dream: A Sci-Fi Short Story
The following “Sci-Fi” short story has been (re)posted in many Chinese online forums and blogs, originally from SCI-FI Great Wall blog, translated by CDT’s Linjun Fan. July is the hottest month of the year in...
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