Tag: Dung Kai-cheung

September 1, 2022

National Translation Month 2022! A Journey Through Time and Place

Claire Brown

Welcome to our annual celebration of National Translation Month 2022! Ten years ago, two incredible women, author and journalist Loren Kleinman and poet and translator Claudia Serea, founded National Translation Month. Understanding language as an essential instrument for expressing the...

September 27, 2018

Book Excerpt! The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction

It is the final week of National Translation Month. All month long we have been featuring excerpts from recent titles and guest posts from translators and scholars. This week we have been focusing on Sinophone literature in English translation. Today...

August 28, 2013

Atlas by Dung Kai-cheung wins Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award

“It is the task of literature to make visible the invisible.”—Dung Kai-cheung We don’t publish a lot of science fiction, so we hope you will indulge us in our excitement in announcing the news of Atlas: The Archaeology of an...

August 9, 2012

Public Square Street from Dung Kai-cheung's "Atlas"

In the third section of his novel Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, Dung Kai-cheung describes the streets of the fictional city of Victoria (based on Hong Kong) in the following excerpt he recounts the strange history of Public...

August 8, 2012

Dung Kai-cheung on Atlas and History as Fiction

Dung Kai-cheung sets Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City in the long-lost City of Victoria (a fictional world similar to Hong Kong). The novel, which fuses history and fiction is written from the unified perspective of future archaeologists struggling...

August 7, 2012

Interview with Dung Kai-cheung

Earlier this summer, Dung Kai-cheung, author of Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City was interviewed by Christopher Mattison in a wide-ranging discussion. Among the issues discussed were translation, the impact of English on Dung’s writing, Hong Kong as a...

July 17, 2012

Featured Cover of the Week: Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City

Our featured cover this week is from Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, by Dung Kai-cheung. The cover was designed by Julia Kushnirsky.