mychinesebooks.com
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.
Helen Wang
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Helen Wang is a UK-based translator and co-founder of Chinese Books for Young Readers (2016-). She works collaboratively with Paper Republic, the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, World Kid Lit, and Global Literature in Libraries Initiative. She was active on Twitter: China Fiction Book Club, with Nicky Harman (2012-2025); Translated World (2013-2025).
Awards:
2017 Marsh Award for Literature in Translation for her translation of Bronze and Sunflower by Cao Wenxuan
2017 Chen Bochui Special Contribution Award, for translation and increasing visibility of Chinese children's books
2025 Shenzhen Reading Month's Translator of the Year
Other publications
The Music of Ink at the British Museum (edited volume featuring Yang Lian, Romesh Gunesekera, Denis Brown, Qu Lei Lei, Rohan de Saram, Zeng Laide and Wang Tao), Saffron Books, London, 2012. Info here
Is Gao Xingjian’s play Chezhan merely a blind worship of modern Western plays as the critic He Wen claims? How far can Chezhan be compared with Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?, Bulletin of the British Association for Chinese Studies, 1986, pp. 83-89. Available here
Interviews and short pieces
Interview, with Julie Sullivan, in Words and Pictures (SCBWI), 7 Oct 2018.
Interview, with Nanette McGuinness, in SCBWI, The Blog, 7 Sept 2017.
Interview, with Eric Abrahamsen, for Paper Republic, April 2016. in English and in Chinese
Interview, with Daniel Hahn, in Books for Keeps.
On "Bronze and Sunflower" in LARB China Blog, 13 April 2016
Translating Children's Books - a short piece for Books from Taiwan (2015)
Learning about Chinese children's books - interview with Zoe Toft for Playing by the Book, 27 April 2015
Bronze and Sunflower - Ann Morgan's Book of the Month, April 2015
Guest Interview: Helen Wang on Children's Book Translation, interviewed by Avery Fischer Udagawa for Cynthia Leitich Smith's "Cynsations" blog, 26 May 2015
Review by Nicky Harman of Bronze and Sunflower in Tribune 6 March 2015
Read Now: On Paper Republic
| Small Town | by Li Jingrui | October 11, 2018 |
| Self-Portrait | by Zhang Xinxin | April 21, 2016 |
| Ying Yang Alley | by Fan Xiaoqing | April 14, 2016 |
| Sunshine in Winter | by Shi Kang tr. Michelle Deeter, Killiana Liu, Juliet Vine and Helen Wang | January 14, 2016 |
| A Second Pregnancy, 1980 | by Lu Min | November 03, 2015 |
| Xie Bomao R.I.P. | by Lu Min | October 29, 2015 |
| Crows | by Cao Wenxuan | September 24, 2015 |
| Missing | by Li Jingrui | August 06, 2015 |
Read Now: Around the Web
Book Publications
All Translations
Short story (25)
- From the Heart
- A Very Special Pigeon
- Into Parting Arms
- Brand New World (with Nicky Harman)
- Xie Bomao R.I.P.
- Let Us Talk About Something Else
- Mad about Orchids
- Sunshine in Winter (with Michelle Deeter, Killiana Liu and Juliet Vine)
- Police Python 357
- Just You Wait
- Ah Fang's Lamp
- Missing
- Velvet
- Ying Yang Alley
- Huiwa's Stand (Huiwa's Stand)
- Small Town
- The Glamour Zoo
- Dragonworld
- Dragon Menu
- Hai Shan Swimming Pool
- Dragonworld
- Galloping Horses
- Mistakes
- One Kind of Reality
- Dragon Menu
Novella (1)
Novel (1)
- Dinner for Six (with Nicky Harman)
Essay (7)
Children's book (30)
- The Village Has Changed
- The Grass House
- Practising goodbye
- Yulu's Linen
- Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean
- Sail
- Leilong's Too Long
- Lessons in Happiness: the story of Zhan Ni and Yunqi
- Tan Hou and the Double Sixth
- The Ventriloquist's Daughter
- Express Delivery from Dinosaur World
- Little Rabbit's Questions
- An's Seed
- Flame
- Cee Cee
- I am Hua Mulan
- Myna Bird as Free as a Cloud
- The Mask that Loved to Count
- Jackal and Wolf
- Leilong the Library Bus
- Playing with Lanterns
- Dragonfly Eyes
- Levin the cat
- A Journey of 9000 Millimetres
- Grandpa's 14 Games
- The Empty Lunchbox
- Mum is Hiding
- Bibbit Jumps
- Bronze and Sunflower
- Pai Hua Zi and the Clever Girl
Excerpt (5)
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Posts
Yu Hua's Exploitation of Mao-era Rhetoric
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
Li Er's new book
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.
Confessions of a multi-lingual author
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’
Weibo ciphers and argots
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...
What children learn about China
By Helen Wang, March 23, '12
In repsonse to the recent post "Chris Livaccari on Overcoming Misconceptions about China"...
The little that schoolchildren know about China is usually what they learn from school and family (and advertising, TV, commercial stuff etc). Lots of primary school activities relating to China at school are projects about dragons, lanterns and lots of red, so no wonder this is their response.
China's Teenage Writing Boom
By Helen Wang, March 23, '12
http://english.qstheory.cn/culture/201112/t20111231_133081.htm
English PEN launches PEN Atlas
By Helen Wang, March 22, '12
http://www.englishpen.org/writing-in-a-city-thats-collapsing/
Just Launched!
Ten Years in the History of Chinese Online Literature
By Helen Wang, March 22, '12
http://www.hotinchina.net/?p=677
Ten Years in the History of Chinese Online Literature — (1) Beginning with the Free Serials
By the Editor, Verbena, Gaines Post:
China’s Best-Selling Fiction for 2011
By Helen Wang, March 22, '12
http://www.hotinchina.net/?p=756
By the Editor, Viola tricolor, Gaines Post:
On February 16th, 2012 the Beijing Open Book IT Corporation published its 2011 annual retail book market best-seller rankings for the fiction category. The following are the Top 15 on the rankings as well as an introduction...
Chinese Graphic Novels and Manga
By Helen Wang, March 22, '12
A review of Aneurin Wright's Things to do in a retirement home trailer park (www.trailerparkbook.com) prompted me to do a quick search on Chinese graphic novels....
Chinese Literature Today
By Helen Wang, March 21, '12
http://www.ou.edu/clt/about.html/
Chinese Literature Today, a title from award-winning World Literature Today, produced its inaugural issue in the summer of 2010. It is based at the University of Oklahama.
Fiction with Cultural Revolution in the background
By Helen Wang, March 20, '12
As recommended by Yvonne Zipp, in The Christian Scientist Monitor, 19 March 2012:
Five Bells by Gail Jones, Picador, 2012
"...But the heart of the novel belongs to Pei Xing, whose parents vanished during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution and who endured her own imprisonment and torture..."
More about Du Fu...
By Helen Wang, March 20, '12
If you're interested in Du Fu, see also some of the recent publications by Brian Holton...
Du Fu in Vikram Seth’s new book of poetry
By Helen Wang, March 20, '12
http://books.hindustantimes.com/2012/03/im-inspired-by-pushkin-vikram-seth/
On his new book of poetry, The Rivered Earth, Vikram Seth said...