{"id":160615,"date":"2013-07-29T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T01:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=160615"},"modified":"2021-09-14T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T04:48:08","slug":"publishers-to-sell-chinese-fiction-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/publishers-to-sell-chinese-fiction-in-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishers Try to Sell Chinese Fiction in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Bloomberg Businessweek,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-07-18\/book-publishers-try-to-sell-chinese-fiction-in-translation\">Christina Larson\u00a0looks at\u00a0the prospects for translated Chinese works in America<\/a><\/strong>. Currently, the flow into China of books translated from English and other foreign languages is much larger than the reverse.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[\u2026] \u201cChina has the largest reading public in the world, but until recently we\u2019ve had relatively little access to its literary scene,\u201d says Post. Yet he is optimistic about the future of translated Chinese works in America. \u201cPeople are more familiar with China. The pitch for a book doesn\u2019t have to rely on painting China as exotic and crazy anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last fall China\u2019s Mo Yan, a novelist known for his magical realism, won the Nobel Prize in Literature, turning global attention to mainland writers. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a historian at the University of California at Irvine and the author of China in the 21st Century, says he increasingly assigns Chinese contemporary fiction to his classes. Recently Amazon.com (AMZN) launched AmazonCrossing, which sells e-books in translation; in March it published its first book translated from Chinese, Xu Lei\u2019s thriller Search for the Buried Bomber.<\/p>\n<p>The most active scout for new Chinese voices is Penguin Books, which just merged with Random House. Some Penguin titles, such as\u00a0<em>Northern Girls<\/em>, a fictionalized account of migrant factory workers\u2019 lives by Sheng Keyi, made their debut in the anglophone world in Australia. \u201cAustralia\u2019s increasing Asian identity means there\u2019s greater interest in Chinese authors,\u201d says Jo Lusby, managing director at Penguin China. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/articles\/2013-07-18\/book-publishers-try-to-sell-chinese-fiction-in-translation\"><strong>Source<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Despite the current translation deficit, Paper Republic&#8217;s Nicky Harman pronounced 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/12\/a-good-year-for-chinese-english-translation\/\">&#8220;a good year&#8221; for Chinese-to-English translation<\/a>. See <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/china\/translation\/\">more on translation<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/12\/query-on-mo-yan-turns-literary\/\">interviews with translators Howard Goldblatt<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2012\/12\/a-good-year-for-chinese-english-translation\/\">Allan Barr<\/a>, via CDT. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/paper-republic.org\/pubs\/pathlight\/\">Paper Republic&#8217;s translation journal <em>Pathlight<\/em><\/a>, available quarterly in paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00D1X7F38\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00D1X7F38&linkCode=as2&tag=chidigtim0b-20\">Kindle<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/pathlight-spring-2013\/id655892180?ls=1\">iBook<\/a> formats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Bloomberg Businessweek,\u00a0Christina Larson\u00a0looks at\u00a0the 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 reverse. [\u2026] \u201cChina has the largest reading public in the world, but until recently we\u2019ve had relatively little access to its literary scene,\u201d says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116,20,7,14744,14745,14746,5],"tags":[935,14222,1328,1289,1442,798,16744,17007],"class_list":["post-160615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","category-culture","category-information-revolution","category-level-2-article","category-level-3-article","category-level-4-article","category-society","tag-books","tag-china-books","tag-fiction","tag-literature","tag-mo-yan","tag-publishing","tag-sheng-keyi","tag-translation","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Publishers Try to Sell Chinese Fiction in Translation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/publishers-to-sell-chinese-fiction-in-translation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Publishers Try to Sell Chinese Fiction in Translation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At Bloomberg Businessweek,\u00a0Christina Larson\u00a0looks at\u00a0the prospects for translated Chinese works in America. 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