Blog : Page 5 : The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing

Censorship: The First Prohibition, by Chen Xiwo

In advance of his visit to Leeds on October 9th, here are Chen Xiwo’s own words on his experiences of writing and censorship. (This article was originally published as the preface to Make-Do Publishing‘s Modern Chinese Masters volume of his work, and is reprinted with their kind permission). At about...

Talking Translation: Nicky Harman

For the first of our blog series on translation and translators, we’re delighted to be joined by Nicky Harman, who has kindly agreed to tell us a bit about her work. Nicky is one of the UK’s foremost Chinese-English translators, working on poems and novels by writers such as Chen...

What We’re Doing

We have plans. Big plans. We’re getting ready for our launch event on October 9th, and are excited to be joined by author Chen Xiwo, translator Nicky Harman, and publisher Harvey Thomlinson. Chen’s new book The Book of Sins, has been translated by Nicky, and is published by Make-Do Studios, and...