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Gender Bending and Homosexuality in an Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel By Susan Chan Egan (Sep 9, 2021)
What does one make of a male adolescent who is sometimes mistaken for a girl; fancies himself a calligrapher and aesthete; has excessive sympathy for all things pretty that extends even to fallen flower petals; indulges in affectionate sex play...
Q&A: Pai Hsien-yung on Chinese Notions of the Afterlife and The Story of the Stone (Sep 7, 2021)
The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature. Embedded in the novel is a biting critique of imperial China’s political and social system. The...
What’s in a Word: An AUP RoundUP By Olivia Treynor (Sep 3, 2021)
With one month-long celebration of women in translation literature behind us and another month of commemorating world literature in progress, I’ve been thinking about language: how language shapes our perception of our reality, how language shifts, how we communicate as...
National Translation Month 2021! A Celebration of Diverse Voices By Olivia Treynor (Sep 1, 2021)
Welcome to National Translation Month 2021! Founded eight years ago, National Translation Month is an annual celebration of global literature. This September, we are excited to present an eclectic mix of books. Ranging from a beloved Persian epic to a...
Does Literature Have to Be Monolingual? Ellen Jones on Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel and Multilingualism in Translation (Aug 31, 2021)
Japanese writer Minae Mizumura’s An I-Novel was originally published in 1995 under the title Shishōsetsu: From Left to Right, to huge uproar. It is a reworking of the traditional “shishōsetsu” or “I novel,” a modernist Japanese autofictional genre that is...

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