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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...
Join us for a special event featuring authors Kit Fan, Jennifer Wong, and Karen Cheung, exploring UK - Hong Kong ties through poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. The event will begin (3:30-4:15pm) with a focus on recent research on Hong Kong writing, involving a dialogue between Dr Jennifer Wong and Prof Gregory Lee, founding Professor...
We're delighted to welcome Wenyan Lu, author of The Funeral Cryer (Atlantic Books, 2023), to talk about her work and celebrate the paperback publication of her book. Originally from Shanghai, China, Wenyan Lu is the winner of the SI Leeds Literary Prize 2020. Wenyan holds a Master of Studies in Creative Writing as well as a Postgraduate Certificate...
We are delighted to welcome Professor Dongwei Chu 褚东伟, Professor of Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, for this special lunchtime guest lecture. Translating Chinese literature into English has been a great challenge for native speakers of English handling Chinese as a foreign language and a greater challenge for native speakers of Chinese translating...
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...
We're delighted to be joined for this event - run in conjunction with the student-led East Asian Research Society (EARS) - by two amazing authors - Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Shen Yang, to read from and discuss their books Dear Chrysanthemums (Scribner, 2023) and More Than One Child (Balestier Press, 2021). The event is free, but please reserve your...
Join author Shen Yang and translator Nicky Harman for this special event focusing on picture book translation. In the first part of the event, Shen Yang will discuss her book Golden Childhood (published by Balestier Press, 2023), and how she combines the folk art of illustrator Chen Huifang and her own story, and Nicky will...
We're delighted to welcome author Yan Ge back to Leeds, where she'll be discussing her recent story collection Elsewhere, published by Faber and Faber. Yan will be in conversation with poet and editor Jennifer Wong, whose co-edited poetry collection, Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology has recently been published by Verve Poetry Press. And...
We're delighted to welcome Comma Press, with authors Wen Zhen and Gu Shi, to celebrate the publication of The Book of Beijing.
Curious about the journey a Chinese book takes on the road to translation? Everything from original creation to translation and publishing?