Chenxin Jiang - "For Now I Am Sitting Here Growing Transparent" - Paola Iovene & Yaerim Gen Kwon

Chenxin Jiang will discuss for now I am sitting here growing transparent. She will be joined in conversation by Paola Iovene and Yaerim Gen Kwon. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion. 

At the Co-op

Presented in partnership with the Third Coast Translators Collective

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About the Book:

Yau Ching's poetry — simultaneously erudite and earthy — is shaped by Hong Kong’s cultural position on the margins of mainland China and at the centre of the Cantonese-speaking world. Her oeuvre explores gender, aesthetics, colonialism, relationships, and illness with a wide range of emotions and registers, and frequently employs wordplay. This debut bilingual collection includes astute political poems, understated love poems, urban anti-eclogues, and prose poems. The book also includes eight still images from her films/videos.

About the Translator:

Chenxin Jiang is a PEN/Heim-winning translator from Italian, German, and Chinese, and a member of the Third Coast Translators Collective. Her translations include The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin (New York Review Books) and Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story by Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta (W. W. Norton, MacLehose Press). She holds a PhD from the Committee on Social Thought and currently serves as president of the board for the American Literary Translators Association.

About the Interlocutors:

Paola Iovene is Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. Her work focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Chinese literature and film.