xiao yue shan
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单小月—poet, writer, translator, editor 🌙 china/canada. as variously as possible | THEN TELLING BE THE ANTIDOTE (@tupelopress, 2024)
Joined September 2013
she's finally here 🧧 what a way to welcome a new year. we gave this book everything—and now it's yours.
Happy publication day to Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons: New Chinese Writing, edited by Zuo Fei, Xiao Yue Shan and Simon Shieh (translated by various). Grab your copy wherever books are sold! ☁️ 🌙 🌠
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chinese literature has so much more to give—that's what we aimed to emphasise with ten thousand miles. w/ OCCT, zuo fei and I will be chatting about the anthology—curation, editing, the point of view we wanted to present to the anglosphere. join us!
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from david palumbo-liu's resignation letter to the modern language association, referencing @omarelakkad's "one day, everyone will have always been against this"
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a tan lin 檀林 poem from《ten thousand miles of clouds and moons》is up today on @thedialmag!!!! 🌫️🌙 form poetry is the foundation in china, but it's rare to see a contemporary poet working within it in an interesting way—檀林 is one of the best.
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some more art by 肖祥辉 xiao xianghui, the artist on our cover ❤️
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"Anthologies can be uneven projects, but this selection of new Chinese writing is strong, varied, and continually fresh and surprising from beginning to end." lovely review of ten thousand miles by the great joseph schreiber (@roughghosts). 🌙🌫️
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as a failed vegetarian, this book reminded me a lot of levina's proposition that eating is our most foundational act of considering moral responsibility
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I have to read every rosmarie waldrop poem two or three times. bit by bit they open up. shine by shine.
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RT @myetcetera: 🧵 All about translated literature. We'd love to publish reviews of these titles in @asiancha in 2025. If you are interested…
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goodbye to a wonder, in absurdity and beauty and incredible earnesty 🌹
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RT @roughghosts: In the mail today, this gorgeous copy of Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons, and anthology of contemporary Chinese wri…
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yum yum yum. I wrote about the hunger of translators in this short essay—inspired largely by @Isa_C_Gomez's brilliant book, cannibal translation, highly recommended read 🥣
How might translation relate to eating and our appetites? In this essay, Xiao Yue Shan chews on translation as a corporeal phenomenon—and how, as translators, 'we owe the objects of our consumption an ethics that is not overwhelmed by our captivation':
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pedro lemebel, trans. sergio holas-véliz & israel holas allimant
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