Filip Noubel
@nasredinhoja.bsky.social
Journalist&researcher on Central Europe, Central Asia, China, Taiwan. Literary translator&reporter. Cosmopolitan found between Taipei, Tashkent and Prague. Drinks tea only. GlobalVoices CapsUnlock Asymptote Journal. All views my own. All about context
"#Chen Yao-chang #陳耀昌 was recognized as a novelist devoted to #Taiwanese history, with "Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa." recounts the Rover Incident between Indigenous groups and an American merchant ship, which escalated into further conflict." focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...
Doctor, author Chen Yao-chang dies at 76 - Focus Taiwan
Chen Yao-chang (陳耀昌), the physician who performed Taiwan's first bone marrow transplant and the author of the historical novel "Puppet Flower" (傀儡花), has died at the age of 76.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
"#Chen Yao-chang #陳耀昌 was recognized as a novelist devoted to #Taiwanese history, with "Puppet Flower: A Novel of 1867 Formosa." recounts the Rover Incident between Indigenous groups and an American merchant ship, which escalated into further conflict." focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...
A new #translation of a #余华 novel:"To reject Mao-era revolutionary realism and romanticism, #YuHua wrote surreal fiction. His phantasmagoric stories generally avoid direct mention of politics, but they perform political work." chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f... #文城 #土匪文学 @vivianwu.bsky.social
Yu Hua: Fictional Cities | China Books Review
The bestselling Chinese novelist foregrounds individual suffering in the chaos of modern Chinese history. In his latest novel in translation, gratuitous violence shows the limits of fiction.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
A new #translation of a #余华 novel:"To reject Mao-era revolutionary realism and romanticism, #YuHua wrote surreal fiction. His phantasmagoric stories generally avoid direct mention of politics, but they perform political work." chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/30/f... #文城 #土匪文学 @vivianwu.bsky.social
Intellectual resistance in #China: "Following speculation #Chengdu’s Youxing Bookstore #有杏书店 would close, amid tributes from supporters, it appears the bookstore and events space has been granted a reprieve and will remain in business." chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/11/tran... @vivianwu.bsky.social
Translations: As Tributes Pour In, Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore Gets a Reprieve From Feared Closure
Following more than a week of speculation that Chengdu’s You Xing Bookstore (有杏书店, Yǒu Xìng Shūdiàn) would soon close, amid an outpouring of tributes from customers and supporters, it appears that the...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Intellectual resistance in #China: "Following speculation #Chengdu’s Youxing Bookstore #有杏书店 would close, amid tributes from supporters, it appears the bookstore and events space has been granted a reprieve and will remain in business." chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/11/tran... @vivianwu.bsky.social
"Time Tunnel offers a new selection of stories and essays, some translated for the first time into English, drawn from every stage of the career of the great Chinese writer #EileenChang" #張愛玲 #chineseliterature #translation www.nyrb.com/products/tim... @vivianwu.bsky.social
Time Tunnel
Now in English for the first time, stories about love, sex, and migration by “China's Virginia Woolf.”
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October 31, 2025 at 5:39 AM
"Time Tunnel offers a new selection of stories and essays, some translated for the first time into English, drawn from every stage of the career of the great Chinese writer #EileenChang" #張愛玲 #chineseliterature #translation www.nyrb.com/products/tim... @vivianwu.bsky.social
#Taiwan's novelist Yang Shuang-zi #楊双子 will give talks in India in November, including at the #MumbaiLitFest, under the theme "Taiwan #India Literary Dialogue." focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025... #literature #translation #台灣漫遊錄
Taiwanese novelist Yang Shuang-zi to embark on India speaking tour - Focus Taiwan
Taiwanese novelist Yang Shuang-zi (楊双子) will give three talks in India in November, including one at the influential Mumbai LitFest, under the theme "Taiwan-India Literary Dialogue: The Indian Journey...
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October 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
#Taiwan's novelist Yang Shuang-zi #楊双子 will give talks in India in November, including at the #MumbaiLitFest, under the theme "Taiwan #India Literary Dialogue." focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025... #literature #translation #台灣漫遊錄
#Taiwan #translation "I was compelled by the idea of translation as a test of my allegiances. But this metaphor is far from how I actually experience the process. Unlike a test, there is no right answer or a way to “pass” in translation, which is an art of compromise". lithub.com/between-chin...
Between Taiwanese and Mandarin: Translation as a Test of Allegiance
During my first semester of teaching in Taiwan, I was in the middle of a lesson on “Monsters and Ghosts” when a student’s hand shot up. His question was not really related to the content: “Teacher,…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:42 AM
#Taiwan #translation "I was compelled by the idea of translation as a test of my allegiances. But this metaphor is far from how I actually experience the process. Unlike a test, there is no right answer or a way to “pass” in translation, which is an art of compromise". lithub.com/between-chin...
"The heroine resists the deliberate silence and forced erasure that has plagued countless #women in #China. As #FangFang writes, generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy." #方方 #Chineseliterature chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
No Country for a Woman | China Books Review
Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"The heroine resists the deliberate silence and forced erasure that has plagued countless #women in #China. As #FangFang writes, generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy." #方方 #Chineseliterature chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
A 2016 interview with #LaszloKrasznahorkai www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... #AsymptoteJournal #Nobel #literature
An interview with László Krasznahorkai - Asymptote
Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai's literary signature is his disenchantment with the period, “the dot” that he considers “an artificial border between sentences.R...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A 2016 interview with #LaszloKrasznahorkai www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an... #AsymptoteJournal #Nobel #literature
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OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
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László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders
László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
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Resharing my article about #CanXue given #NobelPrize #literature rumors - would be amazing indeed! #Chineseliterature #残雪 www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/01... @vivianwu.bsky.social
Tunnel of Forking Paths: On Can Xue’s Dystopian Moral Fable, Mystery Train - Asymptote Blog
For the author, the deconstruction of language allows her to explore themes close to her oeuvre, but also to her personal experience.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Resharing my article about #CanXue given #NobelPrize #literature rumors - would be amazing indeed! #Chineseliterature #残雪 www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2023/01... @vivianwu.bsky.social
#Taiwan #literature #translation #MarcelProust The new Chinese translation of "In Search of Lost Time" is based directly on the French text and will be released in paperback on Oct. 2. focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...
1st Taiwan translation of Proust's 'In Search of Lost Time' set for Oct. - Focus Taiwan
Nearly a century after the last volume of "In Search of Lost Time" appeared, Taiwan will finally have a complete Chinese translation of Marcel Proust's modernist classic in October.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
#Taiwan #literature #translation #MarcelProust The new Chinese translation of "In Search of Lost Time" is based directly on the French text and will be released in paperback on Oct. 2. focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...
#飞氘 #scifi #literature #translation "Science fiction was a very serious thing to do in #China. It allowed people to get closer to modern scientific knowledge, and served as a tool for transforming traditional culture into modern culture." chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/18/s... @chinabooksreview.com
The Storytelling Robot | China Books Review
A science fiction story by Fei Dao, translated by Alec Ash — plus a Q&A with the author on the importance of Chinese sci-fi.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:03 AM
#飞氘 #scifi #literature #translation "Science fiction was a very serious thing to do in #China. It allowed people to get closer to modern scientific knowledge, and served as a tool for transforming traditional culture into modern culture." chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/18/s... @chinabooksreview.com
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Great beginning by @nasredinhoja.bsky.social for this really interesting event. Among other things, we should keep in mind the word Nuance - the “tendency - especially in Europe - to put everyone in the same bag. But there is quite a diversity”
Chinas Politik & Wirtschaft bekommen in unseren Medien viel Raum. Die 2,5 Mio. Chines:innen, die in Europa leben, bleiben weitgehend unbeachtet. Warum ist das so? Wir sprechen Expert:innen über die chinesische Diaspora.
📅 22.9., 9.30h, Bankgasse 8 & Online
➡️ concordia.at/chinese-dias...
📅 22.9., 9.30h, Bankgasse 8 & Online
➡️ concordia.at/chinese-dias...
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Great beginning by @nasredinhoja.bsky.social for this really interesting event. Among other things, we should keep in mind the word Nuance - the “tendency - especially in Europe - to put everyone in the same bag. But there is quite a diversity”
#Taiwan #literature in #translation "Taiwanese-American Lin King (金翎) has received two nominations from the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for her translation of the novel "#TaiwanTravelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄)" focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...
'Taiwan Travelogue' translator nominated for 2 translation awards in U.S. - Focus Taiwan
Taiwanese-American Lin King (金翎) has received two nominations from the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for her translation of the novel "Taiwan Travelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄), the Taiwan Academy...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
#Taiwan #literature in #translation "Taiwanese-American Lin King (金翎) has received two nominations from the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) for her translation of the novel "#TaiwanTravelogue" (臺灣漫遊錄)" focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...
By Tsering Döndrup: "A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958." #Tibet #literature in #translation chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... @chinabooksreview.com @vivianwu.bsky.social
Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review
A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
By Tsering Döndrup: "A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958." #Tibet #literature in #translation chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... @chinabooksreview.com @vivianwu.bsky.social
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„Amerika zavírá půlku svých velvyslanectví v Africe, tzn. že zase kašle na země globálního Jihu. Tam se přitom, myslím, odehrává největší boj - ideologický i ekonomický. A vyhrává tam určitě Čína i Rusko,“ říká v @zaminutusest.bsky.social @nasredinhoja.bsky.social z AMO.cz a @globalvoices.org
Studená válka 2.0. Čína vyslala skrze summit s Ruskem a dalšími jasný vzkaz - Seznam Zprávy
Čínský prezident s dalšími 20 lídry vesměs ze zemí globálního Jihu deklarovali záměr nastolit nový světový řád bez dominance Západu. Jak daleko od takové změny globálního uspořádání jsme, rozebíráme v...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
„Amerika zavírá půlku svých velvyslanectví v Africe, tzn. že zase kašle na země globálního Jihu. Tam se přitom, myslím, odehrává největší boj - ideologický i ekonomický. A vyhrává tam určitě Čína i Rusko,“ říká v @zaminutusest.bsky.social @nasredinhoja.bsky.social z AMO.cz a @globalvoices.org
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In her review of WE COMPUTERS by Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega), Hannah Weber explores the way in which the fictional LLM of the novel offers layers of analyses and signifiers that mean less the more they're regurgitated. Read her review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
![A pink and yellow text-based graphic that features the cover of WE COMPUTERS, the WWB logo, and the following text:
“‘And the Time You Turned Me into a Storyteller?’: Hamid Ismailov’s We Computers” by Hannah Weber
BOOK REVIEW
“[Translator] Shelley Fairweather-Vega manages the impossible task of maintaining its many authors and styles, bending the traditional poems just enough to “accommodate the book’s postmodern plot.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ho65ysdggjjtbdshnsjlaeuk/bafkreihcagf4vfj6wtazra3m2lirqghojulel3hdsumbmxtf2cnfwn2l54@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In her review of WE COMPUTERS by Hamid Ismailov (tr. Shelley Fairweather-Vega), Hannah Weber explores the way in which the fictional LLM of the novel offers layers of analyses and signifiers that mean less the more they're regurgitated. Read her review here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...
"For a #translator, a book like this is a gift. Infinitely playful, it extends an invitation to luxuriate in language. It is genre-fluid, gender-fluid, and overflows with neologisms." lithub.com/blurring-gen... #translation #kimdelhorizon
Blurring Genre, Gender: The Rich Challenges of Translating Kim de l’Horizon’s Wild Fiction
In the autumn of 2023, I found myself in the mountains above Lake Geneva, at a place called Château de Lavigny. I had been invited there on a fellowship to work on my translation of Kim de l’Horizo…
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August 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
"For a #translator, a book like this is a gift. Infinitely playful, it extends an invitation to luxuriate in language. It is genre-fluid, gender-fluid, and overflows with neologisms." lithub.com/blurring-gen... #translation #kimdelhorizon
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感谢 @dashengmedia.bsky.social 邀请 #圆桌19 发言人长平、赵思乐、郑乐捷 @krislc.bsky.social 与 Filip Noubel @nasredinhoja.bsky.social 一起讨论海外中文 #独立媒体 人身处于 #专制 猛进民主退潮时代里做什么！看看他们的对话 👇👇
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July 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
感谢 @dashengmedia.bsky.social 邀请 #圆桌19 发言人长平、赵思乐、郑乐捷 @krislc.bsky.social 与 Filip Noubel @nasredinhoja.bsky.social 一起讨论海外中文 #独立媒体 人身处于 #专制 猛进民主退潮时代里做什么！看看他们的对话 👇👇
上集：https://youtu.be/pwqrBJEBhXA?feature=shared
下集：https://youtu.be/RcOpMeDoKiw?feature=shared
上集：https://youtu.be/pwqrBJEBhXA?feature=shared
下集：https://youtu.be/RcOpMeDoKiw?feature=shared
#LiangQichao #梁啓超 "The legacy of the late Qing era intellectual, once exiled in Japan, is overlooked in the West. A new collection of his essays shows a revolutionary spirit that is still alive in dissidents abroad today. " chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l... @vivianwu.bsky.social
Liang Qichao: Reformer or Revolutionary? | China Books Review
The legacy of the late Qing era intellectual, once exiled in Japan, is overlooked in the West. A new collection of his essays shows a revolutionary spirit that is still alive in dissidents abroad toda...
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July 22, 2025 at 4:49 AM
#LiangQichao #梁啓超 "The legacy of the late Qing era intellectual, once exiled in Japan, is overlooked in the West. A new collection of his essays shows a revolutionary spirit that is still alive in dissidents abroad today. " chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l... @vivianwu.bsky.social
National Museum of #Taiwan Literature announced winners of Taiwan Literature Awards: Chen Chiao-jung #陳巧蓉 won the dramatic script. Lee Chang-ching #李長青 won the poetry, prose went to Wu Pin-yu #吳品瑜. Chen Long-ting #陳龍廷) won the novel prize.
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Winners of Taiwan Literature Awards announced - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
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July 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
#Translation from #Chinese #Hongkong to #French "Réformes linguistiques en Chine, place de la traduction dans le projet national chinois, évolution des représentations de genre dans la langue chinoise, dangers de l’exotisation des langues." #podcast #coralinejortay languealangue.com/episodes/#E10
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July 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
#Translation from #Chinese #Hongkong to #French "Réformes linguistiques en Chine, place de la traduction dans le projet national chinois, évolution des représentations de genre dans la langue chinoise, dangers de l’exotisation des langues." #podcast #coralinejortay languealangue.com/episodes/#E10
#translating your own book back into your native language: "It affords you the time to reflect, wonder, and marvel at what language can do." lithub.com/on-translati... #lithub #HannesBarnard #AndreasRoman #translation #literature
On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue
Andreas Roman is the author of the newly released The Greatest Game of All (Flare Books), his first novel in English. A native speaker and writer of Swedish, Roman wrote The Greatest Game of All in…
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July 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#translating your own book back into your native language: "It affords you the time to reflect, wonder, and marvel at what language can do." lithub.com/on-translati... #lithub #HannesBarnard #AndreasRoman #translation #literature
Essential reading for those of us working on #China in #Africa globalchinapulse.net/living-the-f... #fieldresearch #methodology
Living the Field: How Accommodation Choices Shape Research on Global China in Africa
The field of Global China studies burgeoning over the past two decades proclaims that China must be analysed as an integral part of the global capitalist system (Franceschini and Loubere 2022). China’...
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July 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Essential reading for those of us working on #China in #Africa globalchinapulse.net/living-the-f... #fieldresearch #methodology