An Immigrant's Evolving Perspective

“Is he dead?” I asked Mother, who grasped my wrist tight and strode hurriedly. “Don’t know,” she said. I hoped this was an indication tha...

Since 2012, there has been no doubt in my mind that Chris Buckley @ChuBailiang is one of the most intrepid and acute foreign corresponde...

A wonderful, devastating piece by a wonderful writer. https://t.co/fyrD811RrO — tania branigan (@taniabranigan) June 26, 2019 Just r...

-- A true story I heard from a friend who experienced this It so happened that they arrived in New York City on Christmas Eve, three years...

(Personal essay, published in AGNI 88 ) 1. By the time middle schools finally resumed classes, three years of complete freedom had turned...

"It is better to have the first cremation of the day, my younger sister said, because the furnace is clean. It is better that the view ...

In May 2012, a stranger contacted me through my website. A professor of cultural psychology at Hampshire College, Q.M. Zhang was interested...

A group of my Chinese American friends and I joined Boston's counter-protest today, because we feel that increasing racism, encouraged b...

Just saw in a Reddit discussion an interesting comment related to my post " On Ezra Pound’s Translation of Ancient Chinese Poetry ...

Translating the Atlantic ' s cover stories into Chinese is a project that my friends and I started in March, motivated by a feeling o...

I'm fascinated by the assertion in Walter Benjamin's "The Task of the Translator" (in Theories of Translation ) that ...

concīs min words | max heart     A Memory of the First Battle      Xujun Eberlein At first our city’s two Red Guard factions eng...

(Note: Zhao Gao (258-207BC) was the highest official under the Second Emperor of the Qin Dynasty.) [in translation] Aspiring to gain com...

The following photos were taken by Chinese Americans who also participated in the march today. (I've posted on Facebook a short video I...

What do we start mourning today then? You tell me. I will join Boston Women's March tomorrow, but I feel the need to do something o...

Today Bob and I attended Jay Forrester 's memorial service at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Concord. Jay was the founder of System D...

I was surprised and very touched today by an Amazon review of my book, Apologies Forthcoming . This is a good time to be touched by somethin...

I just can't imagine Trump as the President of the United States. Hillary Clinton might not be the best candidate, but Trump is the wors...

      This might be a bit unusual: in the short span of two months, the LA Review of Books published two essays on Chinese poetry translati...

This is a long overdue post that I have been meaning to write. Now that the July 4th long weekend is here, I finally got the time. After...

My essay, " Clouds and Rain over Three Gorges ," is listed as a notable essay in the  Best American Essays 2015 .  This piece wa...

(Note:  I wrote poems in Chinese when I was young, and have also translated poetry from Chinese to English in recent years, but this is my f...

Can one translate poetry without knowing the source language?  Certainly that was what Ezra Pound did.  In his volume Cathay (1915), Pound...