translator, interpreter
Haidian District, Beijing, China
Canaan Morse began translating literature in the fall of 2006, when he translated and prefaced Wang Shuo's novella The Stewardess for his senior thesis at Colby College in Maine. Immediately after graduation, he returned to Beijing to spend another year in school-two semesters of intensive Chinese at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Studies at Tsinghua, where he first seriously took up Classical Chinese and May Fourth literature as subjects for appreciation, study and translation. He currently resides in Beijing, China.
Translations:
Wang Shuo, The Stewardess (unpublished)
The Tale of Lady Ren 任氏传
He Qifang, Painting Dreams
Publications:
He Qifang, Elegy, published in The Kenyon Review, Summer 2010
He Qifang, Streets, The Weeping Yangtze , in Chinese Literature Today (inaugural issue), July 2010
The website for Oklahoma University's virgin publication Chinese Literature Today is up here, and it looks like they're working on it daily. It (the website) is appearing two steps ahead of CLT's inaugural issue, due to be published this July.
By Canaan Morse, May 23, 2:34a.m.