"2025 has seen a bumper crop for #Chineseliterature in #translation. We recommend 5 titles, from gritty tales of the northeast to conjoined fiction from #HongKong." chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/09/t... @vivianwu.bsky.social @chinabooksreview.com

My long interview on #Taiwan identity and relations with the #CzechRepublic for the #French service of #Czech state radio. francais.radio.cz/taiwan-la-cr... @radiopraguefr.bsky.social @vivianwu.bsky.social

"5 titles by authors from the broader #sinosphere. #HongKong #Taiwan #Malaysia #China #US : stories about our interconnected world." chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/18/w... @vivianwu.bsky.social

" #migrant workers and new immigrants were celebrated for their contributions to #Taiwan's literary landscape at 10th Taiwan Literature Award for Migrants." #tagalog #vietnam focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

"#Chen Yao-chang #陳耀昌 was recognized as a novelist devoted to #Taiwanese history, with "Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa." recounts the Rover Incident between Indigenous groups and an American merchant ship, which escalated into further conflict." focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

A new #translation of a #余华 novel:"To reject Mao-era revolutionary realism and romanticism, #YuHua wrote surreal fiction. His phantasmagoric stories generally avoid direct mention of politics, but they perform political work." chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f... #文城 #土匪文学 @vivianwu.bsky.social

Intellectual resistance in #China: "Following speculation #Chengdu’s Youxing Bookstore #有杏书店 would close, amid tributes from supporters, it appears the bookstore and events space has been granted a reprieve and will remain in business." chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/11/tran... @vivianwu.bsky.social

"Time Tunnel offers a new selection of stories and essays, some translated for the first time into English, drawn from every stage of the career of the great Chinese writer #EileenChang" #張愛玲 #chineseliterature #translation www.nyrb.com/products/tim... @vivianwu.bsky.social

#Taiwan's novelist Yang Shuang-zi #楊双子 will give talks in India in November, including at the #MumbaiLitFest, under the theme "Taiwan #India Literary Dialogue." focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025... #literature #translation #台灣漫遊錄

#Taiwan #translation "I was compelled by the idea of translation as a test of my allegiances. But this metaphor is far from how I actually experience the process. Unlike a test, there is no right answer or a way to “pass” in translation, which is an art of compromise". lithub.com/between-chin...

"The heroine resists the deliberate silence and forced erasure that has plagued countless #women in #China. As #FangFang writes, generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy." #方方 #Chineseliterature chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...

A 2016 interview with #LaszloKrasznahorkai www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... #AsymptoteJournal #Nobel #literature

OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳 wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...

Resharing my article about #CanXue given #NobelPrize #literature rumors - would be amazing indeed! #Chineseliterature #残雪 www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/01... @vivianwu.bsky.social

#Taiwan #literature #translation #MarcelProust The new Chinese translation of "In Search of Lost Time" is based directly on the French text and will be released in paperback on Oct. 2. focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

#飞氘 #scifi #literature #translation "Science fiction was a very serious thing to do in #China. It allowed people to get closer to modern scientific knowledge, and served as a tool for transforming traditional culture into modern culture." chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/18/s... @chinabooksreview.com

Great beginning by @nasredinhoja.bsky.social for this really interesting event. Among other things, we should keep in mind the word Nuance - the “tendency - especially in Europe - to put everyone in the same bag. But there is quite a diversity”

#Taiwan #literature in #translation "Taiwanese-American Lin King (金翎) has received two nominations from the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for her translation of the novel "#TaiwanTravelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄)" focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

By Tsering Döndrup: "A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958." #Tibet #literature in #translation chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... @chinabooksreview.com @vivianwu.bsky.social

„Amerika zavírá půlku svých velvyslanectví v Africe, tzn. že zase kašle na země globálního Jihu. Tam se přitom, myslím, odehrává největší boj - ideologický i ekonomický. A vyhrává tam určitě Čína i Rusko,“ říká v @zaminutusest.bsky.social @nasredinhoja.bsky.social z AMO.cz a @globalvoices.org

#China #literature open.substack.com/pub/chinatal...

In her review of WE COMPUTERS by Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega), Hannah Weber explores the way in which the fictional LLM of the novel offers layers of analyses and signifiers that mean less the more they're regurgitated. Read her review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

"For a #translator, a book like this is a gift. Infinitely playful, it extends an invitation to luxuriate in language. It is genre-fluid, gender-fluid, and overflows with neologisms." lithub.com/blurring-gen... #translation #kimdelhorizon

感谢 @dashengmedia.bsky.social 邀请 #圆桌19 发言人长平、赵思乐、郑乐捷 @krislc.bsky.social 与 Filip Noubel @nasredinhoja.bsky.social 一起讨论海外中文 #独立媒体 人身处于 #专制 猛进民主退潮时代里做什么！看看他们的对话 👇👇 上集：https://youtu.be/pwqrBJEBhXA?feature=shared 下集：https://youtu.be/RcOpMeDoKiw?feature=shared

#LiangQichao #梁啓超 "The legacy of the late Qing era intellectual, once exiled in Japan, is overlooked in the West. A new collection of his essays shows a revolutionary spirit that is still alive in dissidents abroad today. " chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l... @vivianwu.bsky.social

National Museum of #Taiwan Literature announced winners of Taiwan Literature Awards: Chen Chiao-jung #陳巧蓉 won the dramatic script. Lee Chang-ching #李長青 won the poetry, prose went to Wu Pin-yu #吳品瑜. Chen Long-ting #陳龍廷) won the novel prize. www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

#Translation from #Chinese #Hongkong to #French "Réformes linguistiques en Chine, place de la traduction dans le projet national chinois, évolution des représentations de genre dans la langue chinoise, dangers de l’exotisation des langues." #podcast #coralinejortay languealangue.com/episodes/#E10

#translating your own book back into your native language: "It affords you the time to reflect, wonder, and marvel at what language can do." lithub.com/on-translati... #lithub #HannesBarnard #AndreasRoman #translation #literature

Essential reading for those of us working on #China in #Africa globalchinapulse.net/living-the-f... #fieldresearch #methodology

Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern #China by #ZhangYihuan #GuoTing examines how the language of love (愛 ai) has been appropriated and politicised by Chinese political leaders" #博爱 #热爱 madeinchinajournal.com/2025/06/17/r... @vivianwu.bsky.social @madeinchinajournal.com

Proud to discuss #Ukraine for #sinophone audiences with dear friend and #DaSheng founder @vivianwu.bsky.social #大聲 www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3B2... #Lviv #Львiв #resilience #innovation #identity

#BarbaraDemick tells the story of two identical twins born in #China but separated at birth out of fear of repercussions under the one-child policy." chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/22/c... @vivianwu.bsky.social #adoption

#ClimateChange #tea "“Qingming used to be the liveliest time in the tea mountains. Some could earn over 5,000 yuan after working more than 20 days. But this year, they’re leaving with only around 2,000 yuan, even after extra tips.”" www.sixthtone.com/news/1017097

"Squeezed by both political and commercial pressures, China’s book publishers face an existential crisis. How can the industry survive, let alone publish anything interesting?" chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/08/p... #china #literature #publishing

New Rhyming Chaos: @mariarepnikova.bsky.social and I interview @nasredinhoja.bsky.social

#Iran "“Whenever Iran’s streets witness protests—such as during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement—books on totalitarianism take center stage." worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/rea... #WorldLiteratureToday

The new Made in China Journal is out! Is journalism in China dead? As state control grows and old outlets vanish, new forms are emerging—from citizen exposés to cross-border investigations. This issue explores journalism's reinvention. Download for free at madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/22/c...

"Short stories are all the rage in Chinese, but get short shrift in the West. We picked 5 translated collections, from riveting horror tales to irreverent queer fiction." #china #literature #translation chinabooksreview.com/2025/04/29/t... @vivianwu.bsky.social

#QuyênNguyễnHoàng “Self-translation is a flexible zone where I hope neither language settles into conclusiveness.” www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/04... #Vietnam #literature #translation

In ‘Titties,’ Palestinian-Lebanese artist Nour Hifaoui transforms personal encounters into provocative art, igniting conversations about desire, repression, and queer resistance in the Arab world.

#YanGeling #严歌苓 "The acclaimed novelist and screenwriter built an audience in China for her powerful historical narratives. Then, somewhere, she crossed a line. What is it like to be banned from publishing in your homeland?" chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/01/y... #china #literature #censorship #米拉蒂

"At just 32 years old, #Taiwan's writer-translator #LinKing is the first Taiwanese translator to be honored at the U.S. National Book Awards, but she is also a key advocate for Taiwanese literature in the U.S. book market." english.cw.com.tw/article/arti... #literature in #translation

“Asian America is, in its totality, unrepresentable. Perhaps there is some comfort in imagining otherwise, in being handed a ready-made narrative and aesthetic package and being told: this is your world, this is your story.”

Reading the #sinosphere in #translation "The books range in theme from guerilla warfare to cancer survival, and in territory from Hong Kong to Malaysia." chinabooksreview.com/2025/04/15/s... @vivianwu.bsky.social #Taiwan #HongKong #YangShuangzi

#张丽佳 #ZhangLijia "Writing in English offers a different kind of liberation because it is not my native tongue. #Sinophone literature offers an opportunity to deepen the understanding of how Chinese culture functions beyond national borders." globalvoices.org/2025/04/26/s... @globalvoices.org

#刘立杆 #LiuLigan Modern #chinese poetry "His language is utterly contemporary, prone to orature and peripatetic in its attention. What results is the sensation of vision passing over a long, unfurling scroll of cinematic action." www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/four-... #translation by #DongLi

" #AntonHur has played a huge role in reshaping the Anglosphere’s understanding of #Korean books and culture." #translation #koreanliterature www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... #AsymptoteJournal #TowardEternity #AI #language

Disrupting gender norms in #China's music industry: "operating a rock band in a diasporic setting while targeting audiences in mainland China." #tokyo madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/10/r... #diaspora @madeinchinajournal.com @vivianwu.bsky.social #rockmusic @chinaobservers.bsky.social

Interview with #IanJohnson about historical memory in #China and its preservation: "for the 1st time in a century, there is a strong diasporic movement of Chinese who have the means to influence events back home." #中国民间档案馆 globalvoices.org/2025/04/14/c... @globalvoices.org @vivianwu.bsky.social

Nice historical read on an early Indigenous politician--perhaps unsurprisingly, given the prevalence of doctors in Taiwanese political culture, he was a doctor www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...