Translation: “I Am Fan Yusu” (Part 2)
After translating the first half of migrant worker Fan Yusu (范雨素)’s viral biographical essay...
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Translation: “I Am Fan Yusu” (Part 1)
Last week, migrant worker Fan Yusu (范雨素) posted a biographical essay about her struggle through...
Xi Jinping’s Book List: “You Are What You Read”
On Friday, The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer noted Chinese bookstores’ removal or...
Teacher Fired for WeChat Post on “Windbags”
According to a report by Yang Fan for RFA, a teacher in Hubei was dismissed after reposting an...
Netizen Voices: Xi Jinping’s Reading List
In Seattle yesterday to begin his weeklong state visit to the U.S., Xi Jinping delivered a lengthy...
PEN Report: Foreign Authors and Chinese Censorship
Free expression and literacy advocacy group PEN America this week released the report...
CDT Bookshelf: Heather Inwood’s Verse Going Viral
Poetry is revered in China, but is it still a living art form? In 2006, Han Han said modern...
Goodreads: Interview with Yu Hua
Goodreads interviews author Yu Hua about his new novel The Seventh Day: A Novel, his childhood...
Ha Jin’s “A Map of Betrayal”
Ha Jin’s new novel, “A Map of Betrayal”, tells the story of a Chinese spy living...
Yan Lianke: Finding Light in China’s Darkness
Writer Yan Lianke was just awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic. At the awards...
In New Novel, Sheng Keyi Tackles Tiananmen
The New York Times profiles writer Sheng Keyi, whose latest novel, Death Fugue, which is based on...
Translators Leave China Lost for Words
Dong Fangyu at China Daily writes that a shortage of competent translators is hampering Chinese...
Q and A: Chan Koonchung on Tibet, Sex and Censorship
In an interview with Joyce Lau at the New York Times, The Fat Years author Chan Koonchung...
‘Catch-22’ Enters the Chinese Lexicon
Catch-22, the title and starring-rule of Joseph Heller’s 1961 satire of bureaucratic folly...
China’s Censorship Leverage
Reader’s Digest has removed Australian novelist LA Larkin’s Thirst from its anthology...
Feeling Like Holden Caulfield in China
At Foreign Policy, Helen Gao reflects on the enduring but shifting resonance in China of American...
On Yiyun Li’s New Novel Kinder Than Solitude
Larry Rohter at The New York Times reports on writer Yiyun Li’s childhood in China, her...
ChinaFile Interview with Yu Hua
At ChinaFile Columbia University graduate student Zhang Xiaoran interviews writer Yu Hua via email...
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