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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...
For the first of our research salon series of 2025, we're delighted to be joined by Prof Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine, to discuss his current project focussing on George Orwell and contemporary China/Chinese writing, and specifically considering the reception of Orwell's most influential book, 1984, in Mainland China. Prof Wasserstrom...
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...