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Jennifer Feeley

@jenniferfeeley.bsky.social
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Chinese-English Literary Translator Gigi Leung 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 Xi Xi 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 | 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 | 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 Lau Yeewa 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 Chen Jiatong 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒙 series (she/her)

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Did you know there is a young adult (teen) novel about the Hong Kong protests? AN ECHO IN THE CITY won the Freeman Award for children / young adults. I also reviewed Gigi L. Leung's EVERYDAY MOVEMENT, which everyone should read. 🔗 For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: bit.ly/larb-hongkong
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London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our July book will be Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social. We'll be meeting to discuss on the 6th July at 7pm UK time. PM for the Zoom link!
The cover of Tongueless by Lau Yee-Wa, translated by Jennifer Feeley. It features two women, one upside down, on a blue background with a red substance coming from their mouths.An image of Lau Yee-Wa against a backdrop of a river with a cityscape in the distance, holding a book.
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Chi Ta-wei @chitawei.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
www.instagram.com/p/DWoXqSeig3... Translation Grants for Those Who Promote Taiwan Books Internationally 🌈
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Lau Yee-Wa has won the inaugural Chommanard International Women’s Literary Award for TONGUELESS, pub. in English translation by @serpents-tail.bsky.social & @feministpress.bsky.social. I couldn't be happier for her! 💖 www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/202...
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Hong Kong writer Lau Yee-Wa wins first Chommanard International Women’s Literary Award in Bangkok for ‘Tongueless’
​BANGKOK – Hong Kong writer Lau Yee-Wa has been named the winner of the inaugural Chommanard International Women’s Literary Award for 2025. The announcement was made during a gala dinner in Bangkok on...
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Thank you to @wwborders.bsky.social & the guest editors for featuring my translation of the prologue to Gigi Leung's 梁莉姿 novel in progress for their post-2019 fiction from HK series. Stay tuned for more pieces in the series coming next week!
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Happy book birthday to 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙈𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩! 📚🎂 Thank you to our fabulous team at @riverheadbooks.bsky.social & especially our editor extraordinaire @hannzhangg.bsky.social for giving this book a home in English. Available today in the US wherever books are sold.
Cover of the book EVERYDAY MOVEMENT by Gigi L. Leung, translated by Jennifer Feeley. The cover features purple and white tulips set ablaze, their thick green leaves curling up, against a light blue background. Book jacket description of the novel. "As democracy falls apart, two young women are forced to reexamine all they've taken for granted. A ravishing tale of migration, identity, and belonging." Table of contents listing the chapters:
New Town
Vendetta Train
Life During Wartime
Sai Mui, Baby Girl
Terrain of Skin and Flesh 
Panda
The Final Class
Snoopy Friends 
The Outside World
Be a Girlfriend Book jacket featuring photo of the author, Gigi L. Leung. Gigi is wearing a black short-sleeved shirt and a blue and white skirt. The jacket gives brief bios of both author and translator.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Congratulations to all the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship program mentees! 🎉 I’m delighted to serve as the HK Poetry mentor for the talented Allie Xiang on her translations of poems by Damian Cheung 小西. Please check out all the mentees’ bios! ✨
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Thank you @literaryhub.bsky.social for sharing an excerpt of Everyday Movement, coming out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social tomorrow February 10 ✨
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Excited to share that my translation of Wong Yi's 黃怡 "Overseas Bride" has been selected for BEST LITERARY TRANSLATIONS 2026. This is a timely story about the losses involved in immigration, esp. language, & is a love letter to Cantonese. Congrats to all the translators & thank you to the editors!
A book cover in saturated pinks and purples, with a splash of red, displaying the title Best Literary Translations 2026, guest edited by U.S.  Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, with series co-editors Noh Another, Wendy Call, Okyu Tekten, and Kola Tubosun. Text inside a circle notes that this is an uncorrected proof, not for sale, and will be published on 04/14/2026. The first page of a short story called "Overseas Bride" by Wong Yi, translated from Written Chinese and Cantonese by Jennifer Feeley, originally published in Chinese Literature andThought Today. Translator's Note for "Overseas Bride" by Jennifer Feeley, explaining various challenges and strategies used in translating the story. A list of the translators featured in Best Literary Translations 2026. Congratulations to everyone!
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The powerful, award-winning novel from Gigi L. Leung is coming soon in English 🥀 Follow the lives of two women and their communities as democracy starts to crumble in Hong Kong. Translated by @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social, EVERYDAY MOVEMENT arrives Feb 10: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774553...
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Just received my advance copy of 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 by Gigi L. Leung 梁莉姿 (tr. by me), a powerful novel about the everyday lives of ordinary people during the 2019 Hong Kong protests, out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social on Feb. 10, 2026. Thank you @ohanzhang.bsky.social for your brilliant editing!
Cover of advance proofs of the novel Everyday Movement by Gigi L. Leung, translated by Jennifer Feeley. The cover image is of purplish-pink flowers burning. Back cover of Everyday Movement that gives a brief description of the book, short blurbs, and biographies of the author and translator. The author Gigi Leung's letter to English readers explaining the background of writing the book. Table of contents for Everyday Movement. The book is divided into three parts. 

Part One:
New Town 
Vendetta Train 
Life During Wartime 
Sai Mui, Baby Girl 
Terrain of Skin and Flesh 

Part Two:
Panda 

Part Three: 
The Final Class 
Snoopy Friends 
The Outside World 
Be a Girlfriend
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Having spent the past couple days recording the English audio guide for the Xi Xi Space, I have a newfound respect for voice actors & people who record audiobooks. My shortcomings as a voice actor aside, I’m very excited that the Space will open next month & that I can be there for its launch ✨
Voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi SpaceVoice memo recordings for the Xi Xi SpaceDeleted voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi Space, which reveal the limitations of my work as a voice actor
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📣 Meet the mentors for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program! buff.ly/uQyIkTL The program allows an emerging translator to establish and develop a close working relationship with an experienced translator on a literary translation project chosen by the emerging translator.
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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
was away from this side of social media for a while but so glad to learn from @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social her process of translating and editing
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Apply to translate Prose from Hong Kong with the fabulous @jacqlyy.bsky.social & Poetry from HK with me! 🇭🇰
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator. Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I'm happy to share that my English translation of Gigi Leung Lee-chi's 梁莉姿 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 《日常運動》 is coming out from Riverhead Books February 2026. Its power & relevance resonate extend far beyond Hong Kong. Thank you @ohanzhang.bsky.social for your support & careful edits! 香港加油!🇭🇰
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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Et dans l'épisode, une lecture d'un poème de cette immense autrice qu'est Xi Xi, tiré du hors-série de Jentayu dédié à la littérature hongkongaise contemporaine ✨💫
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Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com · 26/06/2025
Attn: translators! Two Lines Press has two open calls for submission right now, both due July 6th!
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Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org · 04/06/2025
NYC: Join us on Wednesday, June, 4 at 7PM at Yu and Me Books for the final U.S. stop of the MENDING BODIES book tour with author Hon Lai Chu, translator @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬, and writer/translator Bonnie Chau. More at: www.yuandmebooks.com/products/boo...
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Anton Hur @antonhur.com · 01/06/2025
Someone just asked me about getting started as a literary translator and I realized I already have kind of a starter pack of content to help emerging translators. First, how to get rights to a book you want to translate: TikTok: vt.tiktok.com/ZSkN9B67w/ Reel: www.instagram.com/reel/CtYkiwh...
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
"What if, in our barter with AI, 'the pound of flesh' we barter turns out to be our brain?" @bairuiwen.bsky.social sees warning signs of the creep of AI into education and translation work. lareviewofbooks.org/article/ai-n...
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AI Nightmares: Rise of the Dead Souls | Los Angeles Review of Books
Michael Berry sees warning signs of the creep of AI into education and translation work.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
A book I’m translating has a chapter named after this song & it’s very timely
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Ginny Tapley Takemori @ginnytkmr.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Open Letter Books, Deep Vellum, The Paris Review… this is a full-on attack on literary publishing.
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
For most of our existence, WWB has received funding from the NEA. Now, like many others, we must chart a path forward without it. But our readers still deserve access to dazzling global writing. Please donate or share our work to support our mission of bringing the world close through literature.
The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: 

"Literature is how we create the world we want to live in. But that world is threatened by the administration's cuts to the NEA and the rich arts landscape it once supported. And the work we do to uplift bold, innovative global writing is newly at risk."The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: 

"Like many other arts organizations across the country, we learned on Friday night that our 2025 NEA grant has been terminated because our work “no longer aligns” with the administration’s priorities.

Moving forward, we cannot rely on funding that has sustained our magazine and our programs for well over a decade. Yet despite these challenges, we stand firm in our mission to amplify global literary voices and invite readers to explore a wider world through literature."The following text, above a green circle reading "swipe" connected to the WWB logo through a line: 

"If you, like us, believe in the power of global stories, here’s what you can do in this destabilizing moment to support WWB and our vision of literature that embraces global interconnectedness:"A set of green text boxes organized above the social media logos for Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn, as well as a black button with white text reading "wordswithoutborders.org" and "wwb-campus.org". Two images, one of a teacher instructing students in a classroom and one of a selfie of smiling folks at a WWB event, are interspersed with the text boxes. The boxes contain calls-to-action to support WWB, including to donate, to subscribe to newsletters, to joine WWB Campus for free, to meet us at our free public events, and to follow us on social media and share our posts.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thank you @jennywcreative.bsky.social for chatting with me about literary translation & HK lit 💖 hongkonger.world/2025/04/21/h...
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Hong Kong literature with an English voice | The Hong Konger
Translator Jennifer Feeley works to retain the distinctive character and tone of the Chinese authors she interprets.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I spent probably an hour last night trying to decipher a Chinese phrase that just wasn't making sense, only to learn from the author that it was simply a typo. 🙈 Presumably this has happened to other literary translators too?
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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
So many of my favorite translators & books are on this list ❤️❤️❤️
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thanks so much @mikemeginnis.bsky.social for talking with me about Sinophone literature & translation ✨ It was an honor & a pleasure. Wishing you the very best in your future endeavors
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If any of your published works were included without consent in Meta’s AI training dataset, you can send them a letter telling them that they do not have the right to use your work. Template courtesy of @authorsguild.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
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Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
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WTAW Press @wtawpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Join us on Thursday, April 17th at 5:30pm PT for our virtual salon, The Art of Translation. 📚 We'll gather to hear from: ✨ @ilzeduarte.bsky.social ✨ @jennybhattwriter.bsky.social ✨ @bdralyuk.bsky.social ✨ @katherineeyoung.bsky.social ✨ @yilinwriter.bsky.social Register here: bit.ly/4hvfXZK
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
When your dog insists on being wrapped in a heated fluffy pink blanket and napping on your lap while you work.
A reddish-brown Shih tzu-Yorkie mix sprawls out on her human’s lap, snuggled into a heated fluffy pink blanket. A keyboard and part of a book are visible in the background.
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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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Lissie Jaquette @lissiejaquette.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is devastating. IWP's impact on international writing and translated literature can't be understated. I have no words.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This is devastating. The IWP is the crown jewel of the U of Iowa & has done so much for literature around the world, but it's also done so much for Iowa. This update feels especially sad coming one week after a beautiful tribute to the program's co-founder, the incomparable Hualing Nieh Engle.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I didn’t expect to stumble upon an entry for Ray Romano in the Pleco app #🀄️📚
A screenshot from the Pleco dictionary app shows an entry for actor Ray Romano, US actor and comedian, born in 1957.
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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Apps are open for the 2026 ALTA Fellowships at Vermont Studio Center! There are 2 fellowships next year: 1. For a BIPOC translator who identifies as queer, woman, non-binary, LGBTQ+ 2. For a mid-career translator (3+ published book-length translations) Deadline: 3/31. Learn more: buff.ly/3K0JaNb
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
When your dog co-opts your workspace
The reddish-brown head of a small dog rests atop a desk, using an external keyboard as a pillow. A laptop computer with a rainbow keyboard sits in the background. Will the human get any work done? We know who’s the boss here.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I accidentally translated something as "clogged poors" instead of "clogged pores," and honestly, it kind of makes sense.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Warm congratulations to this stellar group mentees! Literary translation is in excellent hands ✨ I'm honored to be mentoring the immensely talented Tim Tim Cheng, who'll be this year's Hong Kong Prose Mentee & translating Lee Ka Yee's essay collection 𝙀𝒙𝙥𝒐𝙨𝒖𝙧𝒆. 💖
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We had some visitors to this morning’s fitness classes 🐕
A golden retriever puppy is sprawled on a purple exercise mat, chewing a plastic water bottle.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
US citizens looking for a way to do something, 5calls.org makes it easy to phone your reps & senators. If like me you have social anxiety & hate talking on the phone, they have handy scripts you can follow. It feels like throwing a pebble into an ocean, but it's something.
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I think the word I most loathe translating into English is 背影. 🀄📚
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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Lau Yee-Wa, author of Tongueless, on Hong Kong Fiction on the @chinabooksreview.bsky.social podcast about how Cantonese is disappearing from Hong Kong schools, and what literature can do to raise awareness. chinabooksreview.com/2025/02/04/e...
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Jennifer Feeley @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The Blue-Eyed Tapir The blue-eyed tapir is charcoal gray in front, sandy yellow in back It gives birth to a little tapir striped in white from head to tail, an amazing black Technicolor dreamcoat a marvelous fact --Xi Xi 藍眼睛的貘 一頭藍眼睛的貘 前半身炭灰色,後半身泥黃色 誕下一頭小貘 白條紋橫貫頭尾,黑色 神奇彩衣 奇蹟 --西西
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Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
A legitimately excellent conversation with Lau Yee-Wa on language hierarchies, Hong Kong literature, and the HK author's plight after 2019 — and, of course, her debut novel Tongueless, a psychological thriller. Streaming everywhere you listen to podcasts. chinabooksreview.com/2025/02/04/e...
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Ep. 17: Lau Yee-Wa on Hong Kong Fiction | China Books Review
We talked to the author of "Tongueless" about how Cantonese is disappearing from Hong Kong schools, and what literature can do to raise awareness.
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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Just reposting my doc on HK from last year as much of what is happening with erasing websites etc in the US previously happened in HK, but people resisted… www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...
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BBC World Service - The Documentary, Erasing Hong Kong
Paul French explores how Hong Kong's history is being revised and erased
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Riverhead Books @riverheadbooks.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
"Writers around the world working in Chinese enjoy the gift of an incredibly rich lexicon and literary heritage, but they also face a wide range of obstacles." @ohanzhang.bsky.social Read more about Han's efforts to bring more Chinese fiction to U.S. readers: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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Han Zhang Is Bringing Contemporary Chinese Fiction to U.S. Readers
We talked with the Riverhead editor-at-large—who is also a staff writer at the 'New Yorker'—about the challenges and rewards of bringing Chinese literature in translation to market.
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