Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths

i hope you find a good one though!

i don't :/ i'm not a good person to ask for English translation recs but i don't read any of the English translations

happy mid-autumn festival folks! i'm about to go find some mooncakes in taipei

Writers For Readers 2025 Writers for Readers is Richmond Public Library’s annual celebration of writers and readers. Local authors will be at their own booths, offering a chance for community readers to meet them in person, d...

Local Authors' Book Fair at Brighouse Public Library (Richmond): October 7th, 3-7pm

I will not be at the fair in person (hoping to call in), but my friend @leataranto.bsky.social will have copies of The Lantern and the Night Moths for sale at our table
yourlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68c4b...

Do you have any recs for someone who has never seen one before? I am going to be in Taipei for the next month

I return to Taipei next week for 2+ months and am simply overwhelmed by the number and quality of outdoor temple-fair opera offerings for the first part of October. And on the weekends there are shows in the indoor theaters. It’s bonkers!

#kuaáhì #歌仔戲 #TaiwaneseOpera

Ooooo taking notes

Oh no I think I am going to have to work on improving my skills in reading Traditional Chinese while in Taipei 😂 有些字它认得我，我不认得它

Thank you! I am sure I will

The direct flight from Hangzhou was only 2 hours. Very smooth exit and entry. The travel gods must be on my side today 😂

Made it to Taiwan! First time here and very excited to do some traveling and then do my residency at the Taiwan Literature Base 💜

Here's the sign up link for the workshops I will be teaching for the Taiwan Literature Base during my residency

Literary Translation 101

Mandarin-English Poetry Translation Workshop

How to Submit Your Writing and Translations
for Publication: An Editor's Perspective

reurl.cc/jrZKv2

The sign-up will officially open tomorrow for the 3 workshops/events that I am facilitating during my residency at the Taiwan Literature Base in Taipei. The events are related to translation and/or publishing. Watch this space for an announcement coming soon.

yeah for real

not enough

yikes

If you are reading any translated danmei from Chinese, you better be making sure that translators are not getting exploited 🫠 i see so many people look the other way though and pretend it's not happening just to keep consuming content they love

And honestly I think certain English publishers of Chinese literature are basically like this too... All the BS that people get away with

None of this is a surprise but having it laid out so clearly in English makes my blood boil

"A final unethical practice is the racial and ethnic hierarchies used by the translation companies, usually in Asia, where the actual work is being done. [...] Local translation outsourcers can’t really tell who is any good, and therefore sort prices by ethnicity."

"The translation rates in China are usually set at the lowest levels seen anywhere in the world, less than half of most other developing countries’ languages.[...]The translator is paid 30RMB for every 4 hours, a total of $4.45 or $1.11 per hour, which is around one-third of minimum wage in China."

"A lot of these inquiries will be highly trivial and boil down to “explain why my high school understanding of English is wrong and why your decades of specialization in this field are correct.”"

"The Chinese translator, after having worked hard on a project and earning a fair rate, is sometimes surprised to get a reply from a client with a hundred or more inquiries demanding that the translator explain why a particular translation is correct.

Unethical Labor Practices used in Chinese Translation Unethical labor practices dominate the industry because the majority of translation today is not provided by translators directly…

Reading this article made me fill with rage...

"The translation rates in China are usually set at the lowest levels seen anywhere in the world, less than half of most other developing countries’ languages."

cbltranslations.com/blog/chinese...

i'm glad folks are out there reading and sharing poetry <3

A paperback copy of The Lantern and the Night Moths by Yilin Want on a weathered wooden surface. The cover illustration features an old-fashioned lantern underneath a starry sky, with a ghostly moth nearby.

Okay okay, I dug a little deeper and am now excited about my choices! My main book is going to be The Lantern and the Night Moths by @yilinwriter.bsky.social

A link to my enthusiastic review on Instagram:

www.instagram.com/p/C8DlW18gQS4/

aww thank you Jennifer!

I finally got to meet up with Zhang Qiaohui in Cixi, her hometown.

Even though it is the first time we are meeting, the way she talks feels so familiar, and her personality is exactly like the speaker in her poetry so whenever she tells a story I feel like I am reading her poem 😂💜

i'm currently travelling in china but feel free to message me if you want to chat

it is not everyday that you get to meet the poet whose work you have read for many years and have been working to translate!