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By Nicky Harman, March 25, '12
Real facts about Apple’s supplier Foxconn are in short supply (in spite of the best efforts of Mike Daisey and This American Life) since both Chinese and Western reporters are kept out. So perhaps it’s time for fiction to open the factory gates and give us an imaginative look inside. Chinese novelist and poet, Han Dong, was commissioned to write something for the inaugural issue of GQ (China) Magazine in 2010. In response by the first spate of Foxconn suicides, he wrote this tongue-in-cheek fairy-tale/love story. It's all here: the monotonous hard work, the rule-bound life, the manipulative reporter, the profit-driven bosses and their sycophantic sidekicks....
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The 29th issue (Spring 2012) of Poetry Sky has been published. The
original work and translations of fifteen contemporary Chinese and
American poets are included. This issue is edited by poet Yidan Han and Dr. Kyle David Anderson.
http://www.poetrysky.com/
By Helen Wang, March 25, '12
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-china-culture-20120325,0,1961563.story
The genre has largely been forced to move underground, where tales of powerful totalitarian governments and their brainwashed citizenry find an eager audience. By Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore, Los Angeles Times, March 25, 2012.
By Helen Wang, March 25, '12
Who are the winners? And which of their works have been translated into English?
I've created a list under Resources for Translators...
It took me quite a long time to put this together and it was harder than I thought it would be. I was trying to put together the original Chinese titles and the English titles for those that exist in translation. If you can improve on it, please do so!
By Helen Wang, March 25, '12
http://www.bruce-humes.com/?p=6379
This week's news on the London Book Fair...
The New Directions webpage for Notes on the Mosquito is finally up. Click to order the clothbound edition.
By Helen Wang, March 24, '12
http://www.worldbooknight.org/
This is a great thing ... but the 25 books that have been chosen don't look very much like the 'world' to me. And neither do the people who chose them...
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By Helen Wang, March 24, '12
mychinesebooks.com
This is the bilingual website (French and English) of Bertrand Mialeret, who also has a regular column in the ‘Chinatown’ section of the French website Rue 89.
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By Helen Wang, March 23, '12
http://cin.sagepub.com
China Information, vol. 26, no. 1 (March 2012): "Doing Things Right with Communist Party Language: An Analysis of Yu Hua's Exploitation of Mao-era Rhetoric" by Hua Li
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By Helen Wang, March 23, '12
http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2012-03/23/content_14897771.htm
Li Er's latest anthology of short fiction The White Raven was published in January.
By Helen Wang, March 23, '12
http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/34718-Jimmy-TDM-Talk-Show-Confessions-multi-lingual-author.html
Jimmy Qi on TDM Talk-Show: Confessions of a ‘multi-lingual author’
By Helen Wang, March 23, '12
http://offbeatchina.com/wiebo-rumors-written-in-ciphers-and-argots-words-you-need-to-know-to-decipher-the-political-mystery-in-china
Almost overnight, everybody on Sina Weibo becomes part of a “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” reality show – they look for traces of truth in every rumor, and in their hands lies a secret code book...
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