My new essay on Hong Kong-based poet James Shea's book, Last Day of My Face, on @asiancha.bsky.social! chajournal.com/2025/12/12/l...

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘] In Chris Song’s latest essay, James Shea’s 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒 (Iowa University Press, 2025) is read in relation to Hong Kong as both a lived city and a literary space. @chrissonghk.bsky.social ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/12/l... 。。。。。

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘] In Chris Song’s latest essay, James Shea’s 𝐿𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝐷𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑀𝑦 𝐹𝑎𝑐𝑒 (Iowa University Press, 2025) is read in relation to Hong Kong as both a lived city and a literary space. @chrissonghk.bsky.social ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/12/l... 。。。。。

📣we have a new episode - the very first Shicha episode in English!📣 @tingguowrites.bsky.social talks to Myung-Sahm Suh on the global Christian right, religion and modern Korea! open.spotify.com/episode/574D...

We also discussed @helenjinkim.bsky.social ‘s Race for Survival: How #ColdWar South #Korea Shaped American #Evangelical Empire!

Join @ShabeSherTO #Poetry #OpenMic Jan 20, 2026 to hear featured #poets me & #AG + share a #poem in any #Language #SpredTheWord #diversity #courage #SpokenWord #community #solidarity facebook.com/share/1CCzRqUD…

Looking forward to Dr. Jessica Tsui-yan Li’s talk on her new book on Eileen Chang’s #張愛玲 self-translation at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬 @rclchkl with our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yiwen Liu!

So proud of my #HongKong Literature #香港文學 students at the University of Toronto and their fantastic presentations at the Graduate Students’ Colloquium, part of the Backreading Hong Kong Symposium: Anglophone & Sinophone!

Backreading Hong Kong: An Annual Symposium will be held at Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬 on the coming Monday and Tuesday! The theme of this year is "Anglophone & Sinophone"! Program: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dls/node/844

Received a positive interim review toward tenure! Grateful for everyone’s support that made this possible and most of all to Ting! Half way through.

Super excited to see #Decolonzing Chinese History published in Taiwan! Congratulations @dgtam86.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social!!

Great news! Our Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation achieved its paperback edition! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...

Particularly fruitful in acquiring UTSC fundings this year! Just got both the Departmental Research Fund and the Working Group Grant for research related to the Sinophone and translation, in addition to the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group Grant for “Hong Kong-Canada Connections”!

My English translation of #LiuYichang’s #劉以鬯 “Riot” 動亂 is now published in @asiancha.bsky.social! 📷 Read it here: chajournal.blog/2025/10/23/r... #Translation #HongKongLiterature #LiuYichang #ChaJournal #ChrisSong #Riot #HongKongFiction #TranslationMatters #香港 #香港文學

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍] We're delighted to announce the publication of the latest entry in “Hong Kong Fiction in Translation”, by the section’s founder, @chrissonghk.bsky.social, who translated Liu Yichang’s story “Riot.” ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/23/riot

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐊𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍] We're delighted to announce the publication of the latest entry in “Hong Kong Fiction in Translation”, by the section’s founder, @chrissonghk.bsky.social, who translated Liu Yichang’s story “Riot.” ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/10/23/riot

My new editorial publication, Buoy: IPNHK 2025, with #BeiDao, Lucas Klein , and Yiting He! 新編著出版！《浮標：香港國際詩歌之夜2025》（與 #北島、柯夏智、何依亭合編）！

A digital scholarship project in collaboration with the @utsclibrary! A small but important step toward my broader research on understanding indigeneity in the transpacific context! utsc.library.utoronto.ca/digital-scho...

Hello poetry scholars (+ poets + scholars)! The great German Studies/Comp Lit scholar Lea Pao and I have pitched a seminar to the ACLA in which each contribution will examine a single poem. It'll be in Montreal, I expect it to be fully delightful, send us an abstract: www.acla.org/seminar/61fb...

The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...

Attended the celebration and opening of Mr. Michael Bing Chiu Lai’s art exhibition at @rclchkle! As a literary scholar, I’m really impressed by his heartful dedication to creating, editing, and maintaining _Toronto Season_ 多倫多文藝季 for eighteen years!

I don't read many substacks, but Broad & Ample Road by Michelle Kuo & Albert Wu is special, for insights on Taiwan above all, but good on various other issues, too, eg hwere trends in publishing/patterns of translation/graphic novels ampleroad.substack.com/p/underdog-s... cc @wwborders.bsky.social

Received my new publication in the mail room! Thanks Chia-rong, Min-xu, Alison, and Yenna, for putting this volume together with wonderful chapters from admirable colleagues, including Peiyin, Rebecca, Josh, Cheow-Thia, Lucas, Simona, and many more! See: shorturl.at/bdaIh

The first class of “Hong Kong Literature” graduate seminar in the new semester at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Toronto! Welcome to the world of and the world’s Hong Kong literature! :)

"Her cubicle becomes a chamber of obsessive self-scrutiny, where reflection no longer stabilises identity but fractures it." @myetcetera.bsky.social reviews "Lake Like a Mirror" and "Tongueless." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tongues-tied-mirrors-shattered/

Congratulations @nadmussen.bsky.social!

So honored (and a little stunned) to have received the UTSC Dean’s Merit Award for the second time—“the highest score in the pool”! Grateful beyond words, though I have to admit: the past year has been utterly exhausting.

Just wrapped up another term of “Translation in Media” and “Translation and Adaptation” at UTSC—and reading through student reflections honestly made my day (and week).

My new office! Waited for three years! Finally with a window!

Excited to announce the publication of my English translation of Fah Hing Chong’s essay, “Description, Imagination, and Translational Subjectivity: A Critical Study of Mahua Literary Theories” in Chinese Literature and Thought Today. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📚 My latest translation explores a lesser-known yet pivotal chapter in Sinophone literary history. Wen-Wei Shiu 須文蔚’s “Transregional Circulation of Literary Publications by Macao’s Tipografía Salesiana” 澳門慈幼印書館. Read 📰 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With Ting Guo, I’ve co‑authored a new article titled “The ‘Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon’: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia” in the “Translation Studies as Methods” special issue uof Chinese Literature and Thought Today (Vol. 56, Nos. 1–2). See www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

My essay on the "rise of China" meme just got posted by Chinese Literature and Thought Today. It's got two bits in it: one, historicizing where the "rise of China" idea came from and how it mutated over its 90-year history, and two, asking...(con't): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to share that the new volume of Chinese Literature and Thought Today (CLTT) is out now — featuring a special issue I co-edited with Yifeng Sun: “Translation Studies as Methods.” 🧭📘 🔗 Reas it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/mcs...

📣 Excited to share my new article—co-authored with Yifeng Sun—is now published in Chinese Literature and Thought Today! 📰 It introduces our special issue, “Translation Studies as Methods.” 🔗 Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Caught the 4K restoration of #WongKarWai’s In the Mood for Love #花樣年華 at Toronto’s oldest independent cinema, the Fox Theatre (est. 1914)! Recently, I also wrote two encyclopedia entries on #LiuYichang’s #劉以鬯 fiction, The Drunkard and “Intersection,” which inspired this film’s haunting beauty.

Last winter after a talk at UofT, an audience who shared the difficulty of finding community said, “but you’re here now; I don’t feel alone anymore.” I remain grateful to that heartfelt comment. It warms my heart to think that I’ll be (re)joining UofT next year & reconnecting with this community

Published by indie publisher 51人, this graphic book documented 51 street vendors (hence 51攤) of all trades, ages, genders, ethnicities (incl a Uyghur uncle with ‘warm smiles’) in Shanghai and their lives during COVID & lockdown

reminded again of this bit from DIARY OF THE ABSURD LIFE IN 1997 by Mary Wong, translated by @chrissonghk.bsky.social

Three conference group photos this year: Saarbrücken (Cultural Reparation), Milan (Geo-literary images), Toronto (Sinophone translation)! 今年三張研討會合照：薩布呂肯（文化修復）、米蘭（文學地景）、多倫多（華語翻譯）！

#Toronto peeps, my #book is now available at the Richard Charles Lee Canada- #HongKong Library (f8 Robarts @uoftlibraries.bsky.social, part of EastAsianLib) in its physical form — in addition to the ebook! (Someone has already borrowed it so I used my own copy for the photo shoot🫶👽📚)

Handmade in #HongKong in the 1950s, these costumes came to #Canada w/ legendary performers at the time, exchanged countless hands, but miraculously survived. Currently on exhibit at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library, University of #Toronto, they’re looking for a home in local museums

A blessed Cantonese restaurant is a true Cantonese restaurant. Chinatown, Toronto. #religionsky #diffusedreligion

Deadline June 30!! CFP: #Diversity and #Equity Committee Designated Sessions at AAS 2026 Annual Conference ( #Democratic Strategies Under Threats of Fascism & #Pedagogy Under Threat): networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

So proud of Ting for her latest article in the International Feminist Journal of Politics—a powerful extension of her groundbreaking book Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China. So happy to see your work getting the recognition it deserves, Ting!

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄—𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] We are pleased to publish a two-part series of interview entitled “Dwelling in Tongues: A Conversation on Language, Identity, and Self-Translation" between Simona Gallo & @chrissonghk.bsky.social. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: chajournal.blog/category/dwe...

Immersing myself in the workshops on “Re-visualizing ‘The West’: Geo-Literary Images of Europe in Contemporary Sinophone Writing” in Genoa and Milan these three days!

The second installment of my conversation on poetry writing, translation, and language with Simona Gallo in @asiancha.bsky.social! chajournal.blog/2025/06/11/t...

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐕𝐄—𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] In this conversation with Simona Gallo, @chrissonghk.bsky.social reflects on the fluid boundaries between languages, the formative role of self-translation, and his evolving poetic practice across languages. ⧉ chajournal.blog/2025/06/11/t... 。。。。。

My first student at the UofT graduated with a Master’s degree!