What might China look like in the year 2119 – a century after the first outbreak of Covid-19? This was the question posed by editor Xueting C. Ni to ten leading Chinese science fiction writers at the start of Comma Press’s new anthology China +100. Please join us for an afternoon co-hosted by our Centre...
We're collaborating with Sinoist Books for the launch of Open-Air Cinema, Su Tong's newest collection of Sanwen in translation. Open-Air Cinema offers English language readers a glimpse behind the curtain into workings of a keen mind that helped shape the literary and popular culture of modern China. It features essays ranging from street-level portraits of...
We will be holding a special event for the launch of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing on July 16th. The Writing Chinese project has been running for four years now, and we hope that this development will help us to expand and to sustain our work into the future! To help us celebrate...
Writing Chinese is proud to support the launch of the UK Chinese Writers Network, run by Mary Cooper and funded by the UK Arts Council. Bi’an – the other shore - is a new network set up to connect, develop, and promote Chinese heritage writers across the UK. Whether you're beginning, emerging, or established; whether...