By Lin Man-Chiu

Translated by Helen Wang (Winner 2017 Marsh Award)

The Ventriloquist’s Daughter – Between Fantasy and Reality, by Lin Man-chiu (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative blog)

Illustrated by Liang Peilong

Text by Li Qingye, Translated and adapted by Chun Zhang

On the Story of Ink and Water – Chun Zhang (Global Literature in Libraries Initiative blog)

BY RANDY TAGUCHI

Riku and the Kingdom of White is a coming-of-age story of a wide-eyed boy’s courage, brimming with hope of a bright and shining future. It is also the story of the lost innocence of an untold number of children who continue to live, day after day, undaunted, in Fukushima, after March 11, 2011, in the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Translated from the Japanese by Raj Mahtani

With Foreword by Yuki Masami (Professor of Human and Socio-Environmental Studies, Kanazawa University)

An Australian woman, burdened by the original sin of her Caucasian ancestors, and a Taiwanese woman, haunted by the memories of 100 years of conflict in her homeland, meet as backpackers while travelling in South Korea. As they live and travel together, two women in flight, one from the East and the other from the West, struggle to find a way out of their personal dilemmas.

“Masked Dolls is one of those rare books which after reading reveals itself to be greater than the sum of its parts. Brutal, intense, fascinating.” — The Writes of Woman

“Set in turn-of-the-century Seoul and Taipei, Shih Chiung-yu’s novel depicts what it means to be a woman reconciling the scars of a tortured past with living in a globalized era.” — The Taipei Times

By Yeng Pway Ngon

Translated by Jeremy Tiang

When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains?

Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya dedicate themselves to overthrowing colonialism and bringing about a better world. With time, their paths diverge — into capitalism, into adultery, into the dark heart of the Cultural Revolution. Disillusioned and middle-aged, they look back at their lives from the prosperous but soulless 1980s, wondering what has become of their dreams and ideals.

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize

By Horace Ho

Translated by Darryl Sterk

Event at SOAS London: Horace Ho’s The Tree Fort on Carnation Lane as a Nativist National Allegory-Bildungsroman (8 March 2017, 7-9pm, SOAS, Russell Square: College Buildings Room: 116)

Event at Leeds University: Translating Taiwan: Talk and Q&A with Darryl Sterk (10 March 2017, 4.00-5.30pm)

Winner of English Pen Award

2016 Financial Times Emerging Voices Fiction Awards Longlist (Special Report)

Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen Square, she meets her love Hua Zheng again. However, after the political turmoil, Hua Zheng is framed as one of the perpetrators of the disturbances, and is sentenced to prison. Set against the background of China’s turbulent 1980s and 1990s, Crystal Wedding is a novel of searing emotional honesty.

Amid a Sea of Red Flags: Xu Xiaobin on her life-long relationship with literature: featured in ENGLISH PEN ATLAS

Crystal Wedding Preface by the Author

Snow – a short story by Xu Xiaobin (Read Paper Republic Week 41)

Xu Xiaobin and Nicky Harman in Conversation (Wednesday 20th April 2016, University of Leeds)

“A most wonderful, unsparing and uplifting book, not one ever to forget.” – Ruth Finnegan FBA (Emeritus Professor, Open University)

“This is a powerful and sensitively constructed novel about a literary woman’s search for a fulfilling love against the background of the Tian’anmen tragedy and its aftermath.” – Laifong Leung (Emeritus Professor, University of Alberta)