君子不器
A few days ago it struck me that too little is known about Achilles Fang, aka 方志浵, the man on the far left above, who wrote the introductions to several of Ezra Pound’s more important works, incl. Confucius, the Confucian Odes, and others. Turns out he was a brilliant, eccentric polyglot Chinese scholar at Harvard…
Braised Pork by An Yu review – a startlingly original debut
I Live in the Slums | Can Xue 殘雪 I live in the slums. I didn’t settle firmly on one place to live. I could stay anywhere as long as it had a stove. This area produces coal: all the homes used coal to keep fires burning at night. I just lay in a corner…
Not afraid of ghosts: stories of the spectral in modern Chines fiction Imbach, Jessica Elizabeth (2017)
中國女作家殘雪成諾獎熱門人選 作品被認為最接近魯迅 | 聯合新聞網：最懂你的新聞網站 2019-10-07 14:49 世界日報 / 北京7日電 諾貝爾文學獎將於10日頒獎，中國女作家殘雪被視為熱門人選。殘雪在美國、日本文學界備受重視，被認為是「20世紀中葉以來中國文學最具創造性的作家之一」。有人說，殘雪是目前為止中國最接近魯迅的一個作家。
Chinese Literature Podcast Archives – China Channel Good stuff…
“Bleak reality confronts the Chinese dream in Yan Lianke’s gruesome, gripping novel, The Day the Sun Died” – SCMP review (Aug 1 2018) “The comparison between ancient and modern China is a little too close for comfort, and perhaps explains why the novel has not been published (yet) on the mainland despite winning the Red…