Chenxin Jiang

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Chenxin Jiang is a PEN/Heim-winning translator from Italian, German, and Chinese, and a member of the Third Coast Translators Collective. Her newest translation, for now I am sitting here growing transparent, is a collection of poems by Yau Ching due out this month from Zephyr Press. She currently serves as president of the American Literary Translators Association.

for now I am sitting here growing transparent by Yau Ching
By Yau Ching

Yau Ching
Brookline, Masschusetts. Zephyr Press. 2025. 120 pages.At the heart of Yau Ching’s for now I am sitting here growing transparent lies the po…
Three Poems from Hong Kong
By Yau Ching

February 18, 2025 Yau Ching
Photo by ike / Adobe Stock Boat and ReactionYou were cooking in a dim sum restaurant it worried meIn dreams we react so strangelySometimes only these reactions matteras if there’s no connection…
The Cowshed: Memories of the Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin
By Ji Xianlin

Ji Xianlin
New York. New York Review Books. 2016. 188 pages.The memoirs and fiction about Mao’s Cultural Revolution (1966–76) that were published in the post–Mao People’s Republic (prc) disappointed Peking Unive…