The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing

A Centre for contemporary Chinese writing at the University of Leeds. For authors, translators, publishers, everyone.

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

This account is no longer active, but you can find us on Bluesky (@writingchinese.bsky.social) and on Instagram (@writingchinese), and there's lots going on at our Centre!

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Join us on Feb 12th for an event with travel writer and journalist Thomas Bird, who'll be talking about his book Harmony Express, published by @EarnshawBooks. Co-hosted by the East Asian Research Society at the University of Leeds. All welcome! https://t.co/VEONffoUMP

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Our current Bookclub feature is on the recent China-focused special issue of @GrantaMag. Find out more here, and read a story by Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛, translated by @JeremyTiang! https://t.co/L2IQ0R5xOu

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

"I dreamed of our drills at the training camp, of our ship – fragile as a leaf on the huge, swelling waves of the Pacific Ocean." Read an extract from Fan Wu's Souls Left Behind (trans. Honey Watson) in our current Book Club feature. @sinoistbooks https://t.co/V5SzKQHXPb

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Coming soon from our colleague and honourary Yorkshireman @taoyinkui!

[Timothy Thurston @taoyinkui]

My 1st book "Satirical Tibet" will come out next month. It will be available #OpenAccess, but anyone outside the US interested in buying a physical copy can get 30% off with the discount code FFF24 from @CAP_Ltd (a company based in Yorkshire!) https://t.co/wL79yJtRT5

[Sinoist Books @sinoistbooks]

Souls Left Behind by Fan Wu (Translated by Honey Watson) is the feature of the November book club by the brilliant people @WritingChinese

https://t.co/xga4k1hzu4

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[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

There's still time to sign up for our event tomorrow, celebrating Fan Wu's novel and the wartime contributions of the Chinese Labour Corps

[Sinoist Books @sinoistbooks]

Join us for an exclusive sinoLEEDS virtual event organised by The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing and Sinoist Books. Featuring Fan Wu, John De Lucy and Professor Gregory Lee as they talk about Fan's novel, Souls Left Behind.

https://t.co/j0YBecnNkv

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

The autumn issue of @GrantaMag focuses on writing from China, and is available free online for the next ten days! We'll also be featuring this on our Bookclub shortly, so watch this space for more!

[Granta @GrantaMag]

Today we publish Granta 169: China. Read the autumn edition online for free for the next ten days or subscribe today and receive unlimited access to this issue, as well as our archive.

https://t.co/isuetdEAot

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

All welcome - please sign up here: https://t.co/0DCkhlipiJ

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Join us, and @sinoistbooks, for a special online event on Mon 11th Nov, talking to author Fan Wu about her novel Souls Left Behind (trans. Honey Watson) and the role of the Chinese Labour Corps in the First World War. We'll also be joined by @GBLee and archivist John De Lucy.

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Find out more here, and read the winning entries! https://t.co/pWThhY4sAV

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Huge congratulations to the winners of our first Bai Meigui Creative Writing Competition - Monica Kam, @pris_writing, and @gabrielletse_! You can now read their winning entries on our website. And many thanks to our judges Karen Cheung, Kit Fan, and @jennywcreative!

[Samovar Magazine @samovarmag]

Journeys, strange planets, and a man out of time - in our latest issue, we have stories by @annadixit, Nanpai Sanshu (translated by @xuetingni), and a poem by Bindu Tiji, translated by @LakshmyNair5. Read more here! @strangehorizons https://t.co/WxhXqP5ldj

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Find out more here: https://t.co/eD4zHx96Dk

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Really looking forward to our event on 'Translating Taiwan' tomorrow, with Yu Teng-Wei and Shengchi Hsu! They'll be chatting about their translations, including recent chapbooks from @Strangers_Press, and their residency at @WritersCentre. Come and join us! More info below.

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Many thanks to @xuetingni for visiting us! We had a great chat about Chinese traditions of horror, and you can find out more about Sinophagia on our Bookclub! @Solarisbooks https://t.co/kJ8BdTFULw

[Xueting C. Ni (she, ta) @xuetingni]

Thrilling to see posters for Sinophagia around @LCSLeeds Campus, it was held in a superb venue, very enjoyable conversation with Sarah @WritingChinese, followed by enthusiastic questions, signing and a great catch-up with my hosts. #horror #books

[Xueting C. Ni (she, ta) @xuetingni]

As Sinophagia opens with a college urban legend, what better place for a stop on the book tour than a university campus. Join me tomorrow @LCSLeeds
for a conversation with @WritingChinese on Chinese #horror and my new anthology. #books #spookytober #sff
https://t.co/vs56MIHfj0

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

This online event on Thursday with @yilinwriter sounds great!

[Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter]

On October 24th at 6pm (UK time), I'll be doing an online event with the University of Warwick and speaking about modern Chinese poetry in translation. Hosted by the @WarwickSMLC and @SCAPVC. Open to the public.

Please register here: https://t.co/Jt5NQKJmGG

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

Find out more about the collection on our Bookclub, and read extracts in Chinese and in Xueting's translation: https://t.co/kJ8BdTFULw

[The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing @WritingChinese]

A spooky Bookclub feature this month - Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror! We're delighted to be joined on Wed 23rd by translator and editor @xuetingni, so come and hear more, if you're in Leeds (and feeling brave...!)⬇️@Solarisbooks @LCSLeeds