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Where Else: An International Hong Kong Anthology Reading

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To celebrate the launch of Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology, published by Verve Poetry Press,  and in partnership with Verve, and with the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, we're delighted to be joined by the collection's editors, and by some of the featured poets. This will be a hybrid event, with some speakers...

The Ink Cloud Reader: Kit Fan in Conversation

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We're delighted to welcome poet and novelist Kit Fan to Leeds for this event at the historic Leeds Library, where he'll be reading from and discussing his new collection of poetry, The Ink Cloud Reader, published in April by Carcanet. In his disquieting third collection The Ink Cloud Reader, Kit Fan takes enormous risks linguistically,...

'More Than One Child': Shen Yang and Nicky Harman in Conversation

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We're delighted to be welcoming author Shen Yang and translator Nicky Harman to talk about More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter (Balestier Press, 2021). In this talk, Shen Yang will be discussing some of the background to her book - the experiences of 'excess children' in China during the years of the One-Child Policy...

Women Writing China: Outside Society

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We're delighted to be supporting this event, organised by Sinoist Books, in association with Tilted Axis Press. Featuring authors Li Juan 李娟 and Yan Ge 颜歌 alongside their translators Christopher Payne and Jeremy Tiang, we will be discussing their most recently published works and how their experiences as Chinese women writers have influenced and taken...

Speculative Fiction from Hong Kong: In Conversation with Dorothy Tse (謝曉虹) and Natascha Bruce

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Join us for a reading and Q&A with acclaimed Hong Kong author Dorothy Tse (謝曉虹) and translator Natascha Bruce, who'll be discussing their work together, including an upcoming collection of Chinese speculative fiction, That We May Live, from Two Lines Press. In Dorothy's stories, humans turn into fish, limbs are exchanged as currency, and familiar cityscapes...

Cyborgs and Demons: An Evening of Chinese Science Fiction

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Join us for readings and Q&As with authors Chen Qiufan and Xia Jia, as well as a presentation by Dr Nathaniel Isaacson. We'd like to thank the Sino-British Fellowship Trust for their support with this event. Drinks and snacks provided. The event is free but please reserve your place on our Eventbrite page by 7th...

Poetry, a Conversation: China and the UK

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We're pleased to be supporting this poetry event, with The University of Leeds Poetry Centre, Stand magazine, The Leeds Centre for Translation Studies, and the Leeds Business Confucius Institute. The event will be a symposium consisting of readings and discussions on poetry – including translation - by poets from China and the UK, including poets...

In Conversation with Jeremy Tiang

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We're delighted to welcome writer, translator and playwright Jeremy Tiang back to Leeds, to discuss his work. Jeremy has been a long-term supporter of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, and we're looking forward to talking to him about his own writing, and his translations of authors such as Chan Ho-Kei and Yeng Pway...

An evening with Yang Zhijun & Ma Pinglai

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In partnership with Alain Charles Asia Publishing, we're very happy to welcome the ACA Chinese Literature UK Roadshow to Leeds this month! The event will feature two authors - Ma Pinglai (马平来) and Yang Zhijun (杨志军), who will be discussing their work and their recent books in translation. It will also be a fantastic opportunity to...