Critiques, citations, extraits de Scintillement sur la main de Huadong Qiu. Dans cette ville, les forêts d’immeubles ressemblaient à des montagnes...

A Ying 阿英 -- pen name of Qian Xingcun (钱杏村) or Qian Xingsen (钱杏森) birth named Qian Defu 钱德富 was a 20th century Chinese writer and playwright active from the 1920s onwards, a founder of the League of Left-Wing Writers, underground literary activist in the 1930s and 1940s and legendary bibliophile. His book collection was…

The past and future of "New Dongbei Literature"

After translating Jiang Guangci's Chinese-language novel "The Young Wanderer" into English, I looked up some articles to learn more about Jiang Guangci (1901 - 1931) and his times. Jiang was an early member of both the Chinese Communist Party (in 1922) and the Left Wing Writers League (1930) but was kicked out of both in…

On trouvera ci-dessous le texte de mon intervention de 5 minutes donnée lors du 7ème Printemps de la Maison de la Recherche (AMU-ALLSH) [voir programme ICI] ainsi que le pdf du support visuel utilisé en cette occasion : KASER vs … Continuer la lecture →

A 1930s novel of manners with evocative descriptions of Old Beijing offers surprisingly timeless observations about what it means to be an expat in China.