Jeremy Tiang

Chuffed to be in the Asian Review of Books covering a novel that pulled me right in (tr by @jeremytiang.bsky.social 👑)

It's about a nanny stuck caring for a boy while his ultra rich parents flee a corruption investigation 🇨🇳

Plus there is a goose 🦢 and it's loose

What You Know Most Deeply: On Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions by Zhang Yueran September 26, 2025 – “ ‘Little Reunions ought to be burned,’ Eileen Chang wrote to her friend and literary executor, Stephen Soong, in 1976, the year she finished what would be her last novel.”

Thanks, Angus! Very thoughtful review. Particularly apt that you bring up Eileen Chang, as she's a touchstone for Zhang Yueran

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

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⏱️ 1 month left! Emerging translators: Apply for the 2026 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program for your chance to work closely with an experienced translator on a project of your choosing! Program offered at no cost to the translators selected. Learn more and apply by 11/30! buff.ly/npHAOBE

Brain Rot Without Borders | Baffler Forum There’s no point in denying it anymore: literature as we know it is well on its way to becoming a lost art.

"All of this feels tremendously demoralizing. The meaning and power of language is in the process of being flushed away."
~Zhang Yueran on declining readership in China

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Very sorry to hear this, Anton. Thank you for sharing

Three Percent Podcast #203: World Editions 3.0 + "The Cracks We Bear" Talking about the new iteration of World Editions via a forthcoming Chilean novel.

"I like it edgy, I love it dark, some anger in there. I've been talking about really liking to publish the voices of disobedient women."

@worldedbooks.bsky.social's Christine Swedowsky and Michelle Mirabella on Chad Post's Three Percent podcast

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Book launch - State of Emergency. Jeremy Tiang in conversation with Sunisa Manning at Making Worlds Bookstore in Philadelphia. 210 South 45th Street, Philadelphia, 5pm on Friday October 17

today!

Pleased to announce these authors as featured guests for #VWF2025! Officially D-11 days from the 2025 Festival.

• Saeed Teebi
• Souvankham Thammavongsa
• Madeleine Thien
• Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social
• Miriam Toews @authormiriamtoews.bsky.social
• Georgia Toews

looking forward to Krasznahorkai's single-sentence acceptance speech

Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”

Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔

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17 Oct, 5pm Making Worlds, Philadelphia 19 Oct, 2.30pm City of Asylum, Pittsburgh 24-26 Oct Vancouver Writers Fest 31 Oct-2 Nov Toronto International Festival of Authors

Philadelphia: worldeditions.org/event/jeremy...

Pittsburgh: cityofasylum.org/litfest-2025/

Vancouver: writersfest.bc.ca/2025-festiva...

Toronto: festivalofauthors.ca/festival-202...

What You Know Most Deeply: On Eileen Chang’s Little Reunions by Zhang Yueran September 26, 2025 – “ ‘Little Reunions ought to be burned,’ Eileen Chang wrote to her friend and literary executor, Stephen Soong, in 1976, the year she finished what would be her last novel.”

"She held nothing back, writing with such force that it felt as if she were ripping through the paper. When I began writing fiction, I felt that only by tearing the paper could I leave evidence that I had existed in this world."
~Zhang Yueran on Eileen Chang

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/09...

Michael Emmerich, a professor of Japanese literature at U.C.L.A. and a translator of the eleventh-century novel “The Tale of Genji,” co-authored the LifeWear messaging for Uniqlo. He admitted that it was deliberately enigmatic, saying that he wanted customers to “stop a moment and engage with language.”

new translator aspiration just dropped

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“Granny Liu squats by the grave and says, ‘Look, say you’re right and women do live longer, then fine—you can die first, but you’re making lunch tomorrow.’ “

From “Plants, Stones, Dirt, and Sky” by Yan Lianke, translated by @jeremytiang.bsky.social. buff.ly/RtunfjN

In upper left-hand corner, white on red background, is the National Writers Union logo: NWU with the words “National Writers Union” beneath it Lefthand side of frame, white text on red background: The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! Where: Zoom When: Wednesday, October 8, 7:30-8:45 ET Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com Center/Righthand side of frame: Image of four arms with hands clenched into fists holding on to one another to form a diamond shape. The colors of the four arms, moving clockwise, are black, light purple, maroon and orange.

We’re Doing This Because . . . We believe our power is stronger as a collective than it is as individuals. You don’t have to join NWU to attend the drop-ins, but we hope you will, and are happy to talk to you about why we think the union is the future. The more of us who join, alongside other writers, editors, and media creatives, the greater our chances of winning the working conditions we want and deserve! Translators Organizing Committee | translators@nwu.org

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📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open!

The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator.

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Thanks, Brian!

Just realised there's a typo in the transcript (I actually said "read widely") but I'm not going to correct it because I like the idea of translators reading wisely

“How does a communist guerilla in one of the Cold War’s forgotten battlefields regain his footing at the end of history?” Darren Wan reviews "Delicious Hunger" by Hai Fan and "State of Emergency" by Jeremy Tiang. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emergency-unending/

Emergency Unending | Los Angeles Review of Books Darren Wan reviews Hai Fan’s “Delicious Hunger,” translated by Jeremy Tiang, as well as Tiang’s own novel, “State of Emergency.”

State of Emergency + Delicious Hunger reviewed in LARB by Darren Wan

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Hunter by Shuang Xuetao, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Granta, £12.99) Set largely in the Chinese cities of Beijing and Shenyang, these diverse stories share a blend of urban grittiness and surreal strangeness. In one, a man accompanies his father in an ambulance to hospital, but finds everyone else – including the driver – is asleep. In another, a man goes from stalking women to shooting squirrels; elsewhere, we encounter a remake of The Tempest, and a man who claims to be the last survivor from another planet. Motifs recur – actors, parents, people needing urgently to pee – bringing a sense of unity, however warped. The frequent surprises in these stories, which are darkly charming and hard to shake off, suggest Xuetao may have followed the advice of one of his own characters on writing: “Just sit there, smack your head and let the words flow out.”

Shuang Xuetao's HUNTER in The Guardian

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If you're a translator pissed off about the impacts of AI, our members in the NWU Translators Organizing Committee are building collective power among literary translators as workers whose creative labor deserves to be materially valued. Check them out! nwu.org/chapters/toc

‘Women, Seated’ Shows How Precarity, Wealth, and ‘Having It All’ Are Not Just American Problems Zhang Yueran’s new novel is part of a wave of Asian authors breaking the dominance of Europe in translated literature in the U.S., while dissecting gender and class in their respective societies.

"In recent years, East Asian authors have begun to break the stranglehold that European writers have previously exerted over translated literature... Strikingly, however, Chinese authors have mostly been absent from this cultural conversation."

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A Study in Constrasts: On Nannying and Implicit Trust Translated by Jeremy Tiang. I’ve always been interested in writing about nannies, perhaps because their existence is a study in contrasts. In China, a nanny’s life is difficult: usually she gets ma…

“I’ve always been interested in writing about nannies, perhaps because their existence is a study in contrasts.”
～Zhang Yueran

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Chinese literature is tough to find in English. One editor hopes to change that The novel Women Seated is a thriller about a nanny for a rich family and a kidnapping gone awry. It's the first in a new effort to redefine the types of Chinese literature get translated into English.

"For a long time, the perception of Chinese literature among Western readers has been quite fixed. It's often seen as either heavily influenced by Chinese culture, or focused on people living rural, impoverished lives. Which has nothing to do with our lives today."

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Call for emerging translators: A symphony of island and literature, 2025 workshop for translating Taiwan literature. Intensive and immersive training program for emerging translators of Taiwan literature into English, with Jeremy Tiang as mentor, joined by writers from Taiwan, senior translators, scholars, publishing representatives and curators from the Czech republic, Japan, Poland, South Korea and the UK. 20 participants will be selected. Anyone aged 18 or over, including non-Taiwanese citizens, may apply. Organizer will cover courses, accommodation, insurance and partial transportaiton costs during the workshop. Apply by Sept 7

applications now open for the 2025 Translating Taiwan Literature workshop, a (free!) literary translaltion workshop by the National Museum of Taiwan Literature in Tainan/ Taitung

apply by Sept 7

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Plus, Nov 5 at Sky Bar:

Come drink and dish with the Translators Organizing Committee, a division of the @nwu.org and the United States’ first ever literary translators’ union! Open to members, prospective members, and the solidarity-inclined.

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✨ PRESENTING the @nwu.org Translators Organizing Committee at #ALTA48

✊ Nov 6: Don’t Mourn, Organize! @nwu.org Solidarity Drop-in

✊ Nov 7&8: Rate-sharing Edit-a-thons

✊ Nov 8: Envisioning the Perfect Contract: What to Know & Where to Learn More

*better working conditions 4 literary translators*

“It’s time to get excited about reading Chinese fiction, and Zhang Yueran and @jeremytiang.bsky.social are two of the biggest reasons why.” @readbookpage.bsky.social 🌟

Get your copy of this “vivid, smart, suspenseful” thriller (Mo Yan) + head to Yu & Me's NYC book launch of WOMEN, SEATED tonight!