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Do join us for an open lecture by Prof Jeff Wasserstrom, (UC Irvine), co-hosted with the student-run East Asian Research Society, on China in Five Bookshops: A Quintet of Travel Tales This talk will use the speaker’s visits to unusual bookshops in five different cities at five different periods to explore ways that the People’s...
Join us for a special event to celebrate the English translation of the novel Tibetan Sky 天藏 with the author Ning Ken宁肯 and his translator Thomas Moran. This is the latest SinoLeeds event -- a collaboration between our Centre and Sinoist Books For more information about the speakers and reviews of the book itself, and...
Join us for readings and discussion about poetry of Beijing, with American Chinese poet Anthony Tao. Anthony Tao was born in Beijing, grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, USA, and graduated with a journalism degree from Northwestern University. He returned to Beijing in 2008 to cover the Olympics for ESPN The Magazine, and then stayed. He has...
In association with Granta literary magazine, we are delighted to be welcoming the poet and author Xiao Hai 小海, a leading voice of China's migrant worker literature movement to discuss his latest work, a memoir of his life as a migrant labourer, translated by Tony Hao and published by Granta (2026). Xiao Hai will also...
(Please note updated start time) In association with Granta literary magazine, we're very excited to be welcoming renowned Chinese author Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 to Leeds, to talk about his writing and the screen adaptations of his work. After the discussion with the author, we will be screening an episode of a TV adaptation of part...
We are delighted to be hosting the renowned poet Bai Hua this year, on a Cheney Fellowship. Come to hear about how Chinese poetry has developed over the last century. After the talk there will be opportunities for further informal conversations with Bai Hua in the same venue. About the speaker Considered the central literary...
We're delighted to welcome Dr Chan Cheow Thia, assistant professor of Chinese studies at the National University of Singapore, to Leeds to talk about his book Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature. Dr Chan will give a 30-minute talk, after which there'll be time for a Q&A. Tea/coffee available from...
We're delighted to be joined by author Curtis Chin to talk about his hugely popular memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant. This humour-filled memoir tells his story about growing up Asian in Detroit and coming out to his working class immigrant family, all set against the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s,...
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...
Join us for a talk about train travel in China today, co-hosted with the student-run East Asian Research Society (EARS). Our speaker, Thomas Bird, graduated in Chinese from SOAS, and is currently working in East Asia as a travel writer and journalist (including 15 years in based in Mainland China) and has written for BBC...