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Ling Shuhua 凌叔华 (1900-1990) and Life-Writing The prolific translator of Chinese literature, Nicky Harman, introduces the fascinating life and short stories of feminist writer Ling Shuhua. Her presentation is followed by a creative self-writing workshop led by UK-based Chinese author and tutor, Yan Ge. NEW! Nicky's presentation is now available on our Youtube channel This...
We are delighted to announce that alongside our Bai Meigui Creative Writing Competition "Writing Hong Kong", our friends in Red Bean Poetry Festival and Gathering Leaves Hong Kong, also supported by the Arts Council England, are running two creative writing workshops with experienced tutors which may help you get your ideas on paper. NB: These...
This event, organised in conjunction with the Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds, will combine a presentation by multi-award-winning Chinese novelist Lu Min 鲁敏, with an interactive two-way translation workshop, facilitated by world-leading translators Nicky Harman and Helen Wang (the translators of Lu Min's Dinner for Six, among many other works), with Professor Zhu...
Join Professor Jonathan Stalling (University of Oklahoma) for a creative writing workshop to learn how to compose Classical Chinese poetry in English! Professor Stalling will guide participants in an outdoor hike to "gather seeds" (words) and "sprout" them into lines and couplets and finally to "plant" these into a full "Jueju" -- a poem consisting...
We are delighted to be running a translation masterclass with our author and translator in residence, Dorothy Tse 謝曉虹 and Natascha Bruce. Dorothy and Natascha are in Leeds this February working together on a current translation. The masterclass text will be an excerpt from Dorothy's work, which will be sent to participants in advance. If...