September 26, 2018

China Trans Formed

“After Eunuchs deftly explores how the introduction of Western biomedicine transformed understandings of gender, sexuality, and the body in Chinese contexts from the twentieth century onward.” ~Ari Heinrich, University of California, San Diego Today we are happy to bring you...

September 26, 2018

Michael Berry On the Art of Translation and Wu He’s Experimental Novel Remains of Life

Yesterday on the blog we shared an excerpt from Chi Pang-yuan’s memoir The Great Flowing River that recounted the beginning of our “Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan” series, as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. The experimental...

September 25, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Redemption, The Freedom Schools, Where Are the Women? and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! Redemption Friedrich Gorenstein. Translated by Andrew Bromfield Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better Sarah Tyson The Freedom Schools Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement...

September 25, 2018

Book Excerpt! Chi Pang-yuan’s The Great Flowing River

This week for National Translation Month we are focusing on Sinophone literature in English translation. For today’s post we are sharing an excerpt from The Great Flowing River by Chi Pang-yuan, translated by John Balcom, a powerful personal memoir set...

September 25, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: Wm. Theodore de Bary, U.S. Naval Officer and Sinologist, Elevated Asian Studies at Columbia and Beyond

Sources of Chinese Tradition, compiled by Wm. Theodore De Bary and Irene Bloom, is a seminal collection of primary readings for scholars, students, and general readers. For over 40 years, the readings in this volume on the social, religious, and...

September 22, 2018

Peter France On the Poet Konstantin Batyushkov

September is National Translation Month, a time to celebrate literature in translation. Throughout the month we have been sharing excerpts and guest posts but have devoted Saturdays to featuring poetry titles. Today we have a guest post written by Peter...

September 21, 2018

Alexei Remizov’s Early Modernist Masterpiece Sisters of the Cross

All this week we have highlighted our Russian Library series as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. Today’s post is about the novel Sisters of the Cross by Alexei Remizov, translated by Roger Keys and Brian Murphy....

September 20, 2018

My Time at CUP: Dean Smith

Dean Smith DIRECTOR, CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1987–1988 ASSISTANT COPYWRITER, 1987 JUNIOR COPYWRITER, FEBRUARY 1988 SENIOR COPYWRITER, JUNE 1988 > I worked as a copywriter while working on an MFA in poetry at Columbia. It was my first full-time...

September 20, 2018

Russian Literature is Hilarious!

What does a forgotten novel originally published in 1863, a collection of stories from the early Soviet era, and a multi-genre collection of condensed, vivid contemporary work have in common? Aside from being published in English translation for our Russian...

September 19, 2018

Iliazd’s novel Rapture

This week we are highlighting our Russian Library series as part of our ongoing feature for National Translation Month. Today’s post is about the experimental novel Rapture by Iliazd, translated by Thomas J. Kitson. If you haven’t yet, enter our...

September 18, 2018

New Book Tuesday! Political Responsibility, Borders and Margins, Patient Safety, and More

Our weekly list of new books is now available! New in Paper! Political Responsibility Responding to Predicaments of Power Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo Barbara Budrich Publishers Borders and Margins Federalism, Devolution and Multi-Level Governance Edited by Guy Lachapelle and Pablo Oñate...

September 18, 2018

Trivia Tuesday: Does Education Help Us Climb the Social Ladder? This Author Says Modern Schools Might Instead Reinforce Social and Economic Class Divides

Paul Willis’s Learning to Labor examines a debate that is just as lively today as it was when this book was first published almost forty years ago. Willis observed a group of working-class boys who were classmates in a secondary school in...