Chris Song
@chrissonghk.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Associate Chair @UTSCLanguage @UTSC East Asian Studies @UofT; Editor @Babel_FIT @vvpoetryhk; Poet; Translator.
Looking forward to Dr. Jessica Tsui-yan Li’s talk on her new book on Eileen Chang’s #張愛玲 self-translation at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬 @rclchkl with our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yiwen Liu!
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Looking forward to Dr. Jessica Tsui-yan Li’s talk on her new book on Eileen Chang’s #張愛玲 self-translation at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬 @rclchkl with our postdoctoral fellow Dr. Yiwen Liu!
Backreading Hong Kong: An Annual Symposium will be held at Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬 on the coming Monday and Tuesday! The theme of this year is "Anglophone & Sinophone"! Program: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dls/node/844
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Backreading Hong Kong: An Annual Symposium will be held at Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬 on the coming Monday and Tuesday! The theme of this year is "Anglophone & Sinophone"! Program: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/dls/node/844
Received a positive interim review toward tenure! Grateful for everyone’s support that made this possible and most of all to Ting! Half way through.
November 12, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Received a positive interim review toward tenure! Grateful for everyone’s support that made this possible and most of all to Ting! Half way through.
Great news! Our Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation achieved its paperback edition! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Great news! Our Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation achieved its paperback edition! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...
Particularly fruitful in acquiring UTSC fundings this year! Just got both the Departmental Research Fund and the Working Group Grant for research related to the Sinophone and translation, in addition to the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group Grant for “Hong Kong-Canada Connections”!
November 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Particularly fruitful in acquiring UTSC fundings this year! Just got both the Departmental Research Fund and the Working Group Grant for research related to the Sinophone and translation, in addition to the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group Grant for “Hong Kong-Canada Connections”!
My new editorial publication, Buoy: IPNHK 2025, with #BeiDao, Lucas Klein , and Yiting He! 新編著出版！《浮標：香港國際詩歌之夜2025》（與 #北島、柯夏智、何依亭合編）！
October 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My new editorial publication, Buoy: IPNHK 2025, with #BeiDao, Lucas Klein , and Yiting He! 新編著出版！《浮標：香港國際詩歌之夜2025》（與 #北島、柯夏智、何依亭合編）！
A digital scholarship project in collaboration with the @utsclibrary! A small but important step toward my broader research on understanding indigeneity in the transpacific context! utsc.library.utoronto.ca/digital-scho...
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A digital scholarship project in collaboration with the @utsclibrary! A small but important step toward my broader research on understanding indigeneity in the transpacific context! utsc.library.utoronto.ca/digital-scho...
Attended the celebration and opening of Mr. Michael Bing Chiu Lai’s art exhibition at @rclchkle! As a literary scholar, I’m really impressed by his heartful dedication to creating, editing, and maintaining _Toronto Season_ 多倫多文藝季 for eighteen years!
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Attended the celebration and opening of Mr. Michael Bing Chiu Lai’s art exhibition at @rclchkle! As a literary scholar, I’m really impressed by his heartful dedication to creating, editing, and maintaining _Toronto Season_ 多倫多文藝季 for eighteen years!
Received my new publication in the mail room! Thanks Chia-rong, Min-xu, Alison, and Yenna, for putting this volume together with wonderful chapters from admirable colleagues, including Peiyin, Rebecca, Josh, Cheow-Thia, Lucas, Simona, and many more! See: shorturl.at/bdaIh
September 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Received my new publication in the mail room! Thanks Chia-rong, Min-xu, Alison, and Yenna, for putting this volume together with wonderful chapters from admirable colleagues, including Peiyin, Rebecca, Josh, Cheow-Thia, Lucas, Simona, and many more! See: shorturl.at/bdaIh
The first class of “Hong Kong Literature” graduate seminar in the new semester at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Toronto! Welcome to the world of and the world’s Hong Kong literature! :)
September 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The first class of “Hong Kong Literature” graduate seminar in the new semester at the Department of East Asian Studies of the University of Toronto! Welcome to the world of and the world’s Hong Kong literature! :)
So honored (and a little stunned) to have received the UTSC Dean’s Merit Award for the second time—“the highest score in the pool”! Grateful beyond words, though I have to admit: the past year has been utterly exhausting.
August 20, 2025 at 4:42 AM
So honored (and a little stunned) to have received the UTSC Dean’s Merit Award for the second time—“the highest score in the pool”! Grateful beyond words, though I have to admit: the past year has been utterly exhausting.
Grateful for their trust, effort, and curiosity!
August 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Grateful for their trust, effort, and curiosity!
It’s one thing to teach theory and techniques, but it’s something else entirely to see students connect with the material in their own ways—whether it’s navigating the tone shifts between Chinese and English news writing or rethinking adaptation as a space of interpretation and resistance.
August 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It’s one thing to teach theory and techniques, but it’s something else entirely to see students connect with the material in their own ways—whether it’s navigating the tone shifts between Chinese and English news writing or rethinking adaptation as a space of interpretation and resistance.
Just wrapped up another term of “Translation in Media” and “Translation and Adaptation” at UTSC—and reading through student reflections honestly made my day (and week).
August 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Just wrapped up another term of “Translation in Media” and “Translation and Adaptation” at UTSC—and reading through student reflections honestly made my day (and week).
My new office! Waited for three years! Finally with a window!
August 2, 2025 at 1:48 AM
My new office! Waited for three years! Finally with a window!
Thrilled to share that the new volume of Chinese Literature and Thought Today (CLTT) is out now — featuring a special issue I co-edited with Yifeng Sun: “Translation Studies as Methods.” 🧭📘
🔗 Reas it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/mcs...
🔗 Reas it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/mcs...
July 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Thrilled to share that the new volume of Chinese Literature and Thought Today (CLTT) is out now — featuring a special issue I co-edited with Yifeng Sun: “Translation Studies as Methods.” 🧭📘
🔗 Reas it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/mcs...
🔗 Reas it here: www.tandfonline.com/journals/mcs...
Caught the 4K restoration of #WongKarWai’s In the Mood for Love #花樣年華 at Toronto’s oldest independent cinema, the Fox Theatre (est. 1914)! Recently, I also wrote two encyclopedia entries on #LiuYichang’s #劉以鬯 fiction, The Drunkard and “Intersection,” which inspired this film’s haunting beauty.
July 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Caught the 4K restoration of #WongKarWai’s In the Mood for Love #花樣年華 at Toronto’s oldest independent cinema, the Fox Theatre (est. 1914)! Recently, I also wrote two encyclopedia entries on #LiuYichang’s #劉以鬯 fiction, The Drunkard and “Intersection,” which inspired this film’s haunting beauty.
Three conference group photos this year: Saarbrücken (Cultural Reparation), Milan (Geo-literary images), Toronto (Sinophone translation)! 今年三張研討會合照：薩布呂肯（文化修復）、米蘭（文學地景）、多倫多（華語翻譯）！
June 29, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Three conference group photos this year: Saarbrücken (Cultural Reparation), Milan (Geo-literary images), Toronto (Sinophone translation)! 今年三張研討會合照：薩布呂肯（文化修復）、米蘭（文學地景）、多倫多（華語翻譯）！
Immersing myself in the workshops on “Re-visualizing ‘The West’: Geo-Literary Images of Europe in Contemporary Sinophone Writing” in Genoa and Milan these three days!
June 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Immersing myself in the workshops on “Re-visualizing ‘The West’: Geo-Literary Images of Europe in Contemporary Sinophone Writing” in Genoa and Milan these three days!
The second installment of my conversation on poetry writing, translation, and language with Simona Gallo in @asiancha.bsky.social!
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June 12, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The second installment of my conversation on poetry writing, translation, and language with Simona Gallo in @asiancha.bsky.social!
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My first student at the UofT graduated with a Master’s degree!
June 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
My first student at the UofT graduated with a Master’s degree!
Excited to take part in the first CURE symposium, "Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches," at Saarland University! I’ll be drawing on Sinophone studies and Ting Guo’s framework of “double decolonization”
June 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Excited to take part in the first CURE symposium, "Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches," at Saarland University! I’ll be drawing on Sinophone studies and Ting Guo’s framework of “double decolonization”
What an enriching experience at the Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry seminar I organized with Simona Gallo and Lucas Klein during the 2025 ACLA Annual Meeting! Grateful for three days of thought-provoking discussions and truly inspiring papers—learned so much from everyone involved!
June 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
What an enriching experience at the Translation and Chinese/Sinophone/Sinitic Poetry seminar I organized with Simona Gallo and Lucas Klein during the 2025 ACLA Annual Meeting! Grateful for three days of thought-provoking discussions and truly inspiring papers—learned so much from everyone involved!
My conversation on #HongKong #Sinophone poetry with Simona Gallo in @asiancha.bsky.social!
//these activities form a network of writers, translators, editors, and scholars through which I can connect people’s strengths and help draw greater attention to Hong Kong as an international literary space.
//these activities form a network of writers, translators, editors, and scholars through which I can connect people’s strengths and help draw greater attention to Hong Kong as an international literary space.
May 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
My conversation on #HongKong #Sinophone poetry with Simona Gallo in @asiancha.bsky.social!
//these activities form a network of writers, translators, editors, and scholars through which I can connect people’s strengths and help draw greater attention to Hong Kong as an international literary space.
//these activities form a network of writers, translators, editors, and scholars through which I can connect people’s strengths and help draw greater attention to Hong Kong as an international literary space.