Welcome to the 2022 list of literary works translated from Chinese into English. There is the usual eclectic mix listed below – from scifi to crime, to all other types of good and readable fiction. We have included poetry too, and children’s and young adult fiction. If anyone has any entries to add, please let us know at info@paper-republic.org and we’ll add them. Similarly with star reviews and other newsy items. Enjoy browsing!

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NEWS AND AWARDS
Penguin has launched a Vintage Earth series of an eco-focussed novels, republishing two recent translations from Chinese: Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian tr. Bruce Humes, and The Man with Compound Eyes by Wu Ming-Yi, tr. Darryl Sterk
In its Modern Classics series, Penguin has also reissued Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son, tr. William Dolby

STAR REVIEWS
- Li Zishu, Age of Goodbyes, tr. YZ Chin, Foreword review; LARB review
- Xue Yiwei, Celia, Misoka, I, tr. Stephen Nashef, LARB review; WLT review
- Zhang Yueran, Cocoon, tr. Jeremy Tiang WSJ review; TLS review; Guardian

2022 PUBLICATIONS
FICTION
- A Yi, Wake Me Up at Nine in the Morning, tr. Nicky Harman, Oneworld
- Can Xue, Barefoot Doctor, tr. Karen Gernant; Chen Zeping, Yale UP
- Can Xue, Mystery Train, Natascha Bruce, Sublunary Editions
- Chen Zijin, Bad Kids, tr. Michelle Deeter, Pushkin
- Dung Kai-cheung, Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made Of, tr. Bonnie McDougall; Anders Hansson, Columbia UP
- Eileen Chang, Time Tunnel, tr. Karen Kingsbury; Jie Zhang, New York Review Books
- Fang Fang, The Walls of Wuchang, tr. Olivia Milburn, Sinoist Books
- James Edin, Superman from Earth, tr. Alex Woodend, James Trapp, Kindle.
- Kevin Chen, Ghost Town: A Novel in 45 Chapters, tr. Darryl Sterk, Europa
- Lee Wei-jing, The Mermaid's Tale, tr. Darryl Sterk, Scribner
- Li Kotomi, Solo Dance, tr. Arthur Reiji Morris, World Editions
- Li Peifu, Graft, tr. James Trapp, Sinoist Books
- Li Zishu, Age of Goodbyes, tr. YZ Chin, Feminist Press
- Liu Heping, The 1566 Series (Book 3, The Chief Eunuch, and 4, The Emperor's Nemesis) tr. Wen Huang, Sinoist Books
- Liu Heping, All Quiet in Peking (Book 1, Behind Closed Doors, and 2, Turbulent Skies), tr. Teng Jimeng, Sinoist Books
- Lu Min, Dinner for Six, tr. Nicky Harman and Helen Wang, Balestier
- Ning Ken, Zhong Guan Village: Tales from the Heart of China's Silicon Valley, tr. James Trapp, ACA Publishing
- Perhat Tursun, The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang, tr. Darren Byler & Anonymous, Columbia University Press
- Qi Yimin/ Jimmy, President Qiu: The Irresistable Rise of a Toilet Man, tr. Harvey Thomlinson, Wells.
- Shen Fuyu, The Artisans, Astra House, tr. Jeremy Tiang
- Shuang Xuetao, Rouge Street: Three Novellas, tr. Jeremy Tiang (Metropolitan Books)
- Various authors, Ticket to Tomorrow: Collection of Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy, tr. Liu Jue, Royal Collins
- Various authors/translators, The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, Tor
- Various authors, New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction, edited by Neil Clarke, Xia Jia and Regina Kanyu Wang, Clarkesworld Books
- Wang Xiaobo, Golden Age, tr. Yan Yan, Astra House
- Xue Yiwei, Celia, Misoka, I, tr. Stephen Nashef, Rare Machines
- Yeh, Andrew, Green Monkey Syndrome, tr. Josh Dyer, Blackstone Publishing
- Zhang Yueran, Cocoon, tr. Jeremy Tiang, World Editions
- Zhou Daxin, The Sons of Red Lake, tr. Thomas Bray and Haiwang Yuan, Sinoist Books
- Zou Jingzhi, Ninth Building, tr. Jeremy Tiang, Honford Star

POETRY
- Aa Cled wi Clouds She Cam: Saxty Sang Lyrics Owreset Frae the Chinese, tr. Brian Holton, Taproot Press
- In the Same Light, 200 Tang Poems for Our Century, Edited and Translated by Wong May, Carcanet
- Irish Pages Hard Roads an Cauld Hairst Winds: Li Bai an Du Fu in Scots tr. Brian Holton, Irish Pages
- Wang Yin, A Summer Day in the Company of Ghosts, tr. Andrea Lingenfelter, NYRB Poets
- Xi Chuan, Bloom & Other Poems, tr. Lucas Klein, New Directions
- Yam Gong, Moving a Stone, translated by James Shea and Dorothy Tse, Zephyr
- Zhang Lian, Twilight, tr. Keming Lu, Floating World Editions
- Zheng Xiaoqiong, In the Roar of the Machine, tr. Eleanor Goodman (poetry), Giramondo

NON-FICTION, OTHER
- Bi Feiyu, Literary Lectures, tr. Nicky Harman, Routledge
- Eileen Chang, Written on Water, tr. Andrew Jones, New York Review Books
- Lu Xun, Wild Grass & Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, tr. Eileen Cheng, Harvard UP
- Yan Lianke, Discovering Fiction, tr. Carlos Rojas, Duke University Press

YOUNG ADULT AND CHILDREN
- Cao Wenxuan, Dragonfly Eyes, tr. Helen Wang, Candlewick Press (US edition)
- Huang Beijia, I Want to Be Good, tr. Nicky Harman, New Classic Press, NOTE: only available through Cypress/Guanghwa Book shop, London
- Kailin Duan, Nine-color Deer, tr. Jeremy Tiang, Levine Querido
- Julia Liu, Bei Lynn, Leilong’s Too Long, tr. Helen Wang, Gecko
- Wang Yage, Zhu Chengliang, Playing with Lanterns, tr. Helen Wang, Amazon Crossing