Cave of the Silken Web
The Chinese Film Classics Project is pleased to announce the publication of Christopher Rea’s translation of “Cave of the Silken Web” 盤絲洞 (Dan Duyu, dir., 1927), with a new musical score by Donald...
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I write to share with you that my co-edited experimental book with Franck Bille and Lisa Min titled, Redacted: Writing in the Negative Space of the State has finally been published. It’s open access,...
View ArticlePaper Republic newsletter 19
The newsletter As some of you will know, the newsletter has been going for a couple of years now. Huge thanks to Jack Hargreaves for bringing it out fortnightly at the start. Recently there have been a...
View ArticleMore Swindles from the Late Ming
More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery by Zhang Yingyu (fl. 1617) Translated by Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea Columbia University Press, November, 2024 ISBN: 9780231212458 “In the...
View ArticleGranta special issue
Granta has just published a special issue on contemporary Chinese literature. For the time being, the texts are accessible online. Granta 169: China (Autumn 2024) At a time when China has become a...
View ArticleMore unofficial poetry online and a (livestreamed) symposium
About 25,000 pages of new material have been added to the digital collection of unofficial poetry from China at Leiden University Libraries, the online archive of a groundbreaking cultural tradition of...
View ArticleQueer Literature in the Sinosphere
Dear all, I am pleased to announce Queer Literature in the Sinosphere is published today. I hope you find the book useful in your teaching and research. Book information below. Thank you and all the...
View ArticleCLEAR 46
CHINESE LITERATURE: ESSAYS ARTICLES REVIEWS Volume 46 (Dec. 2024) EDITORIAL ESSAYS AND ARTICLES Valente LEE, “Strange Things, Omens and Geography: Reception of the Shan hai jing in Han China” ZHOU...
View ArticleOxford Handbook of Ritual Language
My chapter on “Ritual Language and Forced Confessions in China” is in this new book — let your library know! Oxford Handbook of Ritual Language, ed. David Tavarez. Oxford: Oxford University Press,...
View ArticleTranslating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales
New Publication Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales: A Case Study and Ideological Approach (Lexington Books, 2024) Juwen Zhang Through meticulous textual and contextual...
View ArticleTrans Asia Photography 14.1
The latest issue of Trans Asia Photography is now online at transasiaphotography.org! “Photobook” (14.1) Contents: Yi Gu; Deepali Dewan, “‘Photobook’: An Introduction” Articles: Sreerupa Bhattacharya,...
View ArticleSix Poems by Mu Cao
MCLC Resource Center is pleased to announce publication of “Six Poems by Mu Cao,” translated by Hongwei Bao. The translations, along with the original Chinese poems, appear below and at their online...
View ArticleQueering the Asian Diaspora
New Publication Hongwei Bao, Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage, 2024) ISBN: 9781529619683 (paperback, 168 pp., £11.99; $18.00) The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified global geopolitical tensions,...
View ArticlePrism 21.1
Prism (Volume 21, Number 1, 2024) Guest edited by Ban Wang and Haomin Gong Culture, Nature, and Environmental Humanities: An Introduction By Ban Wang TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL WISDOM Dog Has No Buddha...
View ArticleVol 36, no. 2 of MCLC
MCLC is pleased to announce publication of vol. 36, no. 2 (Dec. 2024). The table of contents appears below with links to abstracts and, in one case (“Pedagogical Engines”), to a full-text pdf....
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