Chinese Literature

The yin and yang worlds of a Chinese literary outlier

  By Hongling Zhang, SupChina, 9 april, 2021. Wang Xiaobo’s translator writes about the enduring cult status of this important Chinese writer, who still remains obscure outside his home country. In some ways, Wang is more necessary now than ever. Considered one of the most important literary and intellectual figures of 20th-century China, Wáng Xiǎobō …

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The Beijing-born British translator who survived solitary confinement during the Cultural Revolution

BY CHRIS WOOD 18 JAN 2019 Gladys Yang studied at Oxford University, where she became the first person to graduate in Chinese Literature and also met her husband, before returning to China to teach and later translate some of the nation’s finest authors into English. “Scholar dies”, ran a headline in the South China Morning Post on November …

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