Yooj Chun celebrates the achievement of Taiwanese writer Lin Yi-Han, whose novel «Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise», translated by Jenna Tang, tells a story too little heard.
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Wrong from the Start!
In search of shared experience: Talbot Hook points a finger at the Moon, exploring the parallels between literary translation and Zen Buddhism.
Translating Home
Jenna Tang immerses herself in the nostalgic sensory world of Derek Chung’s poetry collection «A Cha Chaan Teng That Does Not Exist», translated from the Chinese by May Huang.
Byways of Translation
Munawwar Abdulla reviews the cotranslation by Darren Byler and an anonymous ally of Perhat Tursun’s «The Backstreets», the first Uyghur novel to appear in English translation.
Review of Can Xue’s «Mystery Train»
Kenny Yim admires the artfulness of Can Xue’s novel «Mystery Train» as translated by Natascha Bruce, and reflects on the ways in which a translation becomes uncannily familiar.
The Translator’s Guilt
May Huang explores various ways in which translation practice can be bound up with feelings of guilt that affect the translator’s relationship to their languages and home(s).
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