Chaired the 2nd Dr. David Hui Lecture in Humanities on overseas classical Chinese poetry by Dr. Lap Lam at @rclchkle @uoft!

One more report on OMNI TV with @tingguowrites.bsky.social, Bernice Cheung, and a student about @utsc @utsclanguage’s first offering of an intensive Cantonese language course in this summer!

So happy to see @utsc.utoronto.ca Language Studies' new Cantonese language course highlighted on CityNews, with Ting, Bernice, and me!

It's here! _Orphans of the Times_, translations from the pathbreaking Bei Dao and Li Tuo-edited book 《七十年代》. Fiction writers (Han Shaogong! Ah Cheng), poets (Zhai Yongming!), and artists (Xu Bing!) reflecting on their lives in memoirs of the PRC's turbulent 1970s. cup.cuhk.edu.hk/CUHKP/Orphan...

Truly delighted to share my recent interview on OMNI Television, where I spoke about my department at @utsc.utoronto.ca launching its very first Cantonese language course!

After two years of sustained effort, I am delighted to share that the first #Cantonese language course is now being offered across the University of Toronto's tri-campus system. My sincere thanks to all who have supported this initiative along the way!

My modest contribution to translating Taiwan literary scholarship into English published in Taiwan Literature English Translation Series 台灣文學英譯叢刊! Learned a lot about Taiwan’s classical verses during Koxinga’s regime and the Qing!

Moments in our English and Chinese Translation Program's Student Conference at the @utsc.utoronto.ca!

Roundtable on the Francophone and the Sinophone at the @utsc.utoronto.ca!

Our Roundtable on the Francophone and the Sinophone at University of Toronto Scarborough!

Made it through AAS this year while battling multiple rounds of jet lag. I also had the impression that there were more panels composed of PhD students than in previous years.

The Backreading Hong Kong: An Annual Symposium this year hosted numerous reunions and inspiring discussions at the University of British Columbia! Thanks so much Helena Wu!

My talk on “Writing Poetry in the Age of AI” at the Chinese University of Hong Kong!

@tingguowrites.bsky.social's book talk on 27 Jan (Tuesday) at @utsc.utoronto.ca!

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘—Chris Song offers a rigorous meditation on the 𝐹𝑙𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑟𝑒 字花 Issue 118 cover controversy, where a grieving teenager’s image appeared without consent. @chrissonghk.bsky.social ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2026/01/26/f... 。。。。。

My new essay on @asiancha.bsky.social, in which I reflect on a recent controversy surrounding Fleurs des lettres 字花, a major Hong Kong Sinophone literary magazine, and what it reveals about consent and ethics in contemporary literary publishing. Read here: chajournal.com/2026/01/26/f...

Blatant plagiarism of University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) professor Ting Guo’s book for a talk at Yale University!

Looking forward to reading my poems about Toronto with AG and the open mic at Shab-e She'r (Poetry Night) — Canada’s most diverse and brave reading series! 明天晚上朗誦我的多倫多詩抄! Event Poster: Ghazaleh Zarrinzadeh Link to the event on Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/1CCzRq...

Great discussions at the MLA in Toronto while having so many other thoughts and worries on my mind…

Great discussions at the MLA in Toronto while having so many other thoughts and worries on my mind…

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....