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On Being Mentored by a Chinese Woman Writer Who Lived a Thousand Years Ago

On Being Mentored by a Chinese Woman Writer Who Lived a Thousand Years Ago

Wendy Chen Considers What Translating Li Qingzhao Taught Her About Her Own Work

By Wendy Chen | February 25, 2025

Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Escaping the Censors’ Gaze: Lai Wen on Sci-Fi and the Need for Chinese Protest Literature Today

Xinran in Conversation with the Author of "Tiananmen Square"

By Literary Hub | June 13, 2024

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing

By Yan Lianke | April 23, 2024

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

“Literature has infinite potential. What could be wrong with that?”

By Wang Xiaobo | July 25, 2023

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Read “Autumn Night,” From Lu Xun's Experimental Prose Collection <em

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Translator Eileen J. Cheng Introduces the Late Writer's “Brilliant, Imaginative Masterpieces”

By Lu Xun and Eileen J. Cheng | November 28, 2022

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

Yan Lianke on the Concept of “Mythorealism”

By Yan Lianke and Carlos Rojas | May 23, 2022

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Megan Walsh on Yan Lianke and Fiction Writing in China

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | February 11, 2022

How Grace Lin’s Mom Coaxed Her Into Reading Chinese Stories

By NewberyTart | February 23, 2021

Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

By Vanessa Hua | August 27, 2018

A Rare Conversation with the Cult Chinese Writer Xi Xi

A Rare Conversation with the Cult Chinese Writer Xi Xi

"Xi Xi, Like Her Work, is Not Easy to Pin Down"

By Megan Walsh | May 3, 2018

The Explosion Chronicles

The Explosion Chronicles

Yan Lianke, trans. Carlos Rojas

By Lit Hub Excerpts | October 4, 2016

On Xie Hong, Master of Chinese Unreality

On Xie Hong, Master of Chinese Unreality

Official Corruption, Out-of-Control Pollution, and Rapid Change

By Hal Swindall | August 15, 2016

Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

On Living Through the "Ultra-Unreal," and Writing About It

By Ning Ken | June 23, 2016

Celebrating Translation Month

Celebrating Translation Month

Six New Pieces on Translation From Russia, China, Greece, and More

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2016

10 Chinese Women Whose Writing Should Be Translated

10 Chinese Women Whose Writing Should Be Translated

Writing from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan

By Nicky Harman | May 25, 2016