Settled in again in Shaoxing, Qiu Jin's hometown, where I will be for the next month and a bit. I have set up my own self-guided residency to try to complete my first draft of my book length translation of Qiu Jin's poetry. Excited to explore Zhejiang and Jiangsu more as well.

Well-established and leading academic institutions asking underpaid translators to translate 3000 words for free for a translation test is just going too far in requesting free labor.

I missed out on buying possibly the only surviving copy of one of the oldest editions of Qiu Jin's poetry by minutes today because I wasn't on social media when the seller sent me photos -_-

happy new year from Yibin, China 😄 first time I got to spend NYD/NYE in my hometown in over 20 years

🇵🇸 palestine protest in taiwan yesterday outside of mofa one of the aims with the rally this time was to be more interactive - participants self organised into smaller groups to discuss how to increase visibility for the palestinian movement in taiwan and escalate direct actions

❤️ #ConnectingGaza @thellpsx.bsky.social bit.ly/eSimsRUs

ICYMI I’m starting a book club in January on my Patreon. Membership is 1$. We’re very cool people. Come join us! www.patreon.com/cw/soniasula...

Got some medication from the hospital. No major issues, should be better in a few days. I blame my cough issues on the air pollution T_T

Had to go to the hospital today in China because I have been dealing with a bad cough (likely due to really bad air pollution). Got to experience first-hand the efficiency of the Chinese medical system, since I haven't been in a hospital here for over two decades.

Ah this is good. It’s shameful how this disease has been psychologised over the years. I’m happy to have campaigned on Long Covid if it contributed in any small way to ME being taken more seriously ❤️

No (The person who came up with this should take some Chinese grammar lessons)

So tired of the ways that writers in the West take chinese words/concepts (often mistranslated to begin with) out of context and use them in ways that completely ignore the original meaning, etymology, idea, etc 🙄

So, if I launched a series of podcasts where I chat about stories and folktales on Patreon, would you come? ☺️

Yesterday I got to visit my maternal grandpa's ancestral village where ancestors have lived since the 14th century (according to his genealogy book). www.instagram.com/p/DSfNvBgjnRt

I just recovered today from a formerly estranged family member the only copies of a bunch of really precious childhood photos, immigration papers and school/home info and addresses from when my family tried to immigrate to the US, and more 🫨 that i never knew existed or thought long lost

Tales & Feathers...on a podcast? 👀 It's true! Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection interviewed our former Co-EIC @yilinwriter.bsky.social and current Managing Director @andregeleynse.com about cozy fantasy & slice-of-life fiction! It's a wonderful discussion, we're honoured to be on the podcast!

I do agree in principle that it's extremely necessary to have a translated Hugo (and really overdue I think) but my stance on this, as before, is it should be inclusive of all genres, so not just fiction and prose but also poetry, and of hybrid forms

I’m going to a workshop today about building to utopia. I refuse to let my imagination be constricted by our present which is so full of pain and oppression.

I finally made it back to my hometown in China after 7 years away. And among the photo albums my late uncle kept for me from my late maternal grandpa's belongings... I found a copy of his family genealogy book (now mine 😂) that traces our ancestors back to 1372 🤯

Yes, I guess I have unlocked a new role as a... librettist? Coming in 2026 😁 More news soon when I have it www.tangramsound.com/chronicle

I have been travelling in Sichuan the past few weeks. People here laugh at me when I tell them Vancouver issues heat warnings when it gets above 30 or 35 C, but here I am looking at Chengdu issuing a cold warning that the temperature is now 4 to 7 C 🤣

working on a piece that critiques the exclusion of literary translators from so-called canlit, and it makes me angry but it's also cathartic 🥲

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

No one has to repost me. Don't let that be a valid reason not to support. Writers, platforms, can say a few words about why human translation is important to them, or global coordination, or shifting power to Black publishers, or whatever. Say it, then add this link: ko-fi.com/africantrans...

nbd sobbing over this pic of a firefighter rescuing someone’s cat from the hong kong fire

starting the first day of my taichi training camp at Mount Qingcheng! 👊

What I have been up to in Chengdu: eating the most delicious Sichuanese food and snacks, visiting sites connected to the poets Du Fu and Xue Tao (especially happy about the latter because yay literary female ancestors), touring a cool temple and buildings associated with various gods of literature

so happy to be back in Sichuan after 7 years away. i'm going to have the best food every single day for the next few weeks 😂

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

City Book Room in Singapore sold out on all the copies of The Lantern and the Night Moths they ordered for my event before I arrived XD but they're kindly taking pre-orders for more so if you want to get a copy, please check them out

The Lantern And The Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social and A Study In Our Selves @maxpasakorn.bsky.social 🌈🌈🌈💖💖💖

Go get The Lantern and the Night Moths: Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation by @yilinwriter.bsky.social !

I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested. City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Hope to see folks in Singapore at this event! Translating In-Betweenness: Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday) Time: 4-5:30pm City Book Room 387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02 The Modules, S427623

🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth. We hold every name and every story in our hearts. #TDOR

I want to remind folks that I'm doing this event in Singapore on Saturday afternoon. Please come if you're around and share with any folks interested. City Book Room is kindly asking folks to register so we can get a sense of the number of people to expect: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I had the worst experience with a hotel ever last night, involving Habyt Chinatown in Singapore. No keys in the check-in mailbox, unreachable via emergency line, unreachable via whatsapp/text, inaccessible with really steep staircases, emergency keycard that can randomly open other guests' rooms!

made it to Singapore last night. a lot of drama dealing with a hotel (when i went to do the self check-in, keys were missing, emergency line was unreachable, whatsapp unreachable the room number didn't even exist, and i had to rely on other people staying there to try to contact them 😱)

I have sent a letter. Please help us fight against gentrification in Vancouver's Chinatown. The space should be used for social housing, not expensive condos. share.nwmd.social/s/e4iK0k3f

llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever

oh it's so gross

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

www.gofundme.com/f/alice-wong... here’s where to send funds to continue Alice’s legacy <3

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

I am so sad to hear this. Thank you for everything, Alice. I was in touch with her briefly when helping to translate materials for crips for e-sims for Gaza, and she is such an inspiration. Rest in power, Alice 💔

Guys I am ready for the training camp and Daoist temple stay Look what I bought 😂 the book's title is 中国古代导师生活 The Life of Ancient Chinese Daoists and it came from a book shelf section named 道教神仙学（Daoism-the study of immortal deities/Xian) 😂

Hope to see folks in Singapore at this event! Translating In-Betweenness: Readings and Discussions: Diaspora, Gender, and Literary Translation Yilin Wang, Max Pasakorn, Sherice Ngaserin Date: 22. 11. 2025 (Saturday) Time: 4-5:30pm City Book Room 387 Joo Chiat Rd, #03-02 The Modules, S427623

Bookman Books in Taipei will be stocking my book The Lantern and the Night Moths, so the book will finally be available through a bookstore here if you're looking for a copy. www.bookman.com.tw/books/detail...

The Yanai Initiative is pleased to invite proposals for a symposium entitled “Experimental Translations in/with East Asian Languages,” to be hosted at UCLA on April 10-11, 2026. Deadline November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM (PT). See more information threaded below. ⬇️