Woeser on Feathering Ai Weiwei’s Wing
As Ai Weiwei asks supporters to drop donated Lego through the sunroofs of strategically parked...
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LatestA Eulogy for the Cenci Journalism Project
Since 2011, the Cenci Journalism Project has been “reporting another dimension of the...
Translators Leave China Lost for Words
Dong Fangyu at China Daily writes that a shortage of competent translators is hampering Chinese...
Netizen Voices: #In One Line, Prove You’re a Web Editor#
News on China’s Internet is restricted by a constant flow of directives from central government agencies, and China’s legions of website editors bear the heavy responsibility of making sure those directives are...
Gandhi’s Writings Heading for Chinese Translation
The BBC’s Ankur Jain reports plans for Chinese translations of Gandhi’s autobiography,...
Tibetan Artists and Writers Defy Information Controls
For the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy’s Banned Expression campaign, Dechen...
At Last, ‘The Plum in the Golden Vase’ in English
At The Los Angeles Review of Books, Stephen Marche celebrates the completion of David Tod...
Authors Accept Censors’ Rules to Sell in China
Many directors and studios in Hollywood have faced, and often succumbed to, pressure from Chinese...
Of Literature and Laureates, Translations and Trends
At The Los Angeles Review of Books, Jeffrey Wasserstrom talked to translator Brendan O’Kane...
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...
A Good Year for Chinese-English Translation
At Paper Republic, Nicky Harman celebrates a good year for Chinese-to-English translations, listing twenty books published—mostly—in 2012. OK, I’ve cheated a bit – three of the publications below are poetry, and two others come...
Finding Zen and Book Contracts in Beijing
On the New York Review of Books blog, Ian Johnson profiles Bill Porter, an American translator of Chinese poetry and religious books, who has become a minor literary celebrity in China: For Porter, it all started several years...
Book Publishers Scramble for Chinese Readers
The New York Times reports on efforts to publish “The Persian Boy,” by Mary Renault, and other foreign works of literature, in Chinese: With tastes growing more sophisticated and worldly, foreign book publishers have leapt at...
China Closes Yeeyan Website that Translated Guardian Stories
Yeeyan, the online volunteer English-Chinese translation service, has been shut down. The Guardian, which partnered with Yeeyan last year to publish selected Guardian stories, reports: Yeeyan’s main website, which also...
Dui Hua Human Rights Journal: Tibetan Guide’s Incitement Case Surfaces: 3-Year Sentence for Emails, Text Messages
From the Dui Hua Human Rights Journal: Dui Hua has obtained and produced English translations of the indictment and verdict (original documents in PDF) for a previously unknown case of a Tibetan sentenced to three years in...
Lawyer’s Request for RTL Information Disclosure Rebuffed by Chinese Ministry of Justice
Chinese lawyer Xie Yanyi’s request to the Ministry of Justice that information about China’s reeducation-through-labor system be made available to the public has been denied. The Dui Hua Human Rights Journal has...
Hui Minority Beats Lanzhou Chengguan Onto Knees Crying
ChinaSMACK has captured a netizen’s response to vigilante justice against the abuse of “urban management” officials (chengguan 城管) in Lanzhou, a Hui Muslim dominated area: This weekend, due to the recent need to repair our...
China Detains Writer of Critical Web Letter to Hu
On March 18th, CDT shared the story of Zhang Shijun, a former soldier who called for democracy in an online open letter to President Hu Jintao (link in Chinese). According to Bloomberg, Zhang was taken by police last night:...
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