Translation: “I Am Fan Yusu” (Part 2)
After translating the first half of migrant worker Fan Yusu (范雨素)’s viral biographical essay...
by Josh Rudolph | May 10, 2017
After translating the first half of migrant worker Fan Yusu (范雨素)’s viral biographical essay...
by Josh Rudolph | May 2, 2017
Last week, migrant worker Fan Yusu (范雨素) posted a biographical essay about her struggle through...
by Samuel Wade | Oct 17, 2016
On Friday, The Washington Post’s Simon Denyer noted Chinese bookstores’ removal or...
by Anne Henochowicz | Nov 17, 2015
According to a report by Yang Fan for RFA, a teacher in Hubei was dismissed after reposting an...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 24, 2015
In Seattle yesterday to begin his weeklong state visit to the U.S., Xi Jinping delivered a lengthy...
by Josh Rudolph | May 22, 2015
Free expression and literacy advocacy group PEN America this week released the report...
by Anne Henochowicz | Jan 12, 2015
Poetry is revered in China, but is it still a living art form? In 2006, Han Han said modern...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 9, 2015
Goodreads interviews author Yu Hua about his new novel The Seventh Day: A Novel, his childhood...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 20, 2014
Ha Jin’s new novel, “A Map of Betrayal”, tells the story of a Chinese spy living...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 22, 2014
Writer Yan Lianke was just awarded the Franz Kafka Prize in the Czech Republic. At the awards...
by Sophie Beach | Oct 10, 2014
The New York Times profiles writer Sheng Keyi, whose latest novel, Death Fugue, which is based on...
by Cindy | Jun 2, 2014
Dong Fangyu at China Daily writes that a shortage of competent translators is hampering Chinese...
by Cindy | May 26, 2014
In an interview with Joyce Lau at the New York Times, The Fat Years author Chan Koonchung...
by Josh Rudolph | May 13, 2014
Catch-22, the title and starring-rule of Joseph Heller’s 1961 satire of bureaucratic folly...
by Cindy | Apr 1, 2014
Reader’s Digest has removed Australian novelist LA Larkin’s Thirst from its anthology...
by Samuel Wade | Mar 10, 2014
At Foreign Policy, Helen Gao reflects on the enduring but shifting resonance in China of American...
by Natalie Ornell | Feb 25, 2014
Larry Rohter at The New York Times reports on writer Yiyun Li’s childhood in China, her...
by Natalie Ornell | Feb 23, 2014
At ChinaFile Columbia University graduate student Zhang Xiaoran interviews writer Yu Hua via email...