Feng Zikai: can one be both a painter and a writer?

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Feng Zikai (1898-1975) played an important role in the modern Chinese art scene. This is brought to our attention by “Color of Clouds” (1), a book that includes drawings and many of his essays and comments, translated for the first time and presented by Marie Laureillard-Wendland.

A very personal style, the “manhua”:

Born in Shimenwan in Zhejiang Province, a region that had suffered greatly from the Taiping rebellion, but which benefited later from silk production. … Lire la suite

The art of literary translation: a tribute to Liliane Dutrait.

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Originally published on Rue89 – 11/13/2010 –

If there is one area where France is not declining and is well positioned, it is that of the number of books translated from foreign languages, and the quality of translations. This is particularly true for Chinese literature, who has just lost one of its major translators, Liliane Dutrait. A tribute will be made shortly in Aix-en-Provence.

Publishing and translation in the forefront

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Are children a handicap for literature?

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As Lu Xun said: “Marx was still able to write” The Capital “in the middle of crying children, so he was a great man …” (1). This sentence came to my mind while reading Feng Zikai’s essays (2) on which I will come back soon and reminded me that this group of friends in the region of Shanghai: Feng Zikai, Zhou Ziqing and Ye Shengtao had written about children in the years 1925, the same … Lire la suite

A prize for the Chinese writer Han Shaogong.

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Originally published on Rue89 – 11/01/2010

After Mo Yan two years ago, the Chinese writer Han Shaogong was awarded the  Newman prize for Chinese literature from the University of Oklahoma. The  selected writers: Yu Hua, Su Tong, Ge Fei and Li Ang were strong competition.

His translator, Julia Lovell, a member of the jury, convinced the other members of the merits of his most famous work “A Dictionary of Maquiao” unfortunately not yet translated into … Lire la suite

“A dictionary of Maqiao” by Han Shaogong, wins a prize in the United States.

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As mentioned in an article for Rue89, “A Dictionary of Maqiao” just won the Newman prize in the United States.

This surprising book led to some turmoil when it was published in China in 1996 (1). Two Chinese critics explained that this dictionary is a plagiarism of “The Khazar Dictionary” by the Serbo-Croatian writer Milorad Pavic (born 1925), a book published in 1985 and translated into Chinese ..

The controversy in the press is severe, … Lire la suite