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Join us for a virtual sinoLEEDS event, organised in partnership with Sinoist Books, with support from Arts Council England. We're delighted to be joined online by three speakers - Fan Wu, John De Lucy and Professor Gregory Lee, to talk about Fan's novel, Souls Left Behind (translated by Honey Watson and published by Sinoist Books) and...
Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring Professor Liang Sun, the director of The Experimental Theatre Troupe at The Central Academy of Drama, and her team. She will be in conversation with Xunnan Li, one of the deputy directors of The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, to explore the pivotal role of “Text”...
Please note that this event has been cancelled. We hope to welcome Yee-Wa and Jennifer to Leeds at a future point.
We're very happy to joined by two translators for this event on 'Translating Taiwan'! Yu Teng-Wei and Shengchi Hsu will discuss their work - including their translations of chapbooks from Strangers Press - followed by an audience Q&A. Tickets are free, but please reserve your place here. Tea and coffee provided. Yu Teng-Wei is a...
In association with EARS (the East Asian Research Society), we're delighted to be hosting author, editor, and translator Xueting Ni as part of her Sinophagia Tour, discussing Chinese horror, just in time for Halloween! The tour is to mark the launch of Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror, published this month by Solaris Books, and...
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...