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Chenxin Jiang

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Chenxin Jiang

Chenxin Jiang translates from Italian, German, and Chinese....

Recent translations include Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story by Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta (Norton), shortlisted for the 2019 Italian Prose in Translation Award, Volatile Texts: Us Two by Zsuzsanna Gahse (Dalkey Archive), and the PEN/Heim-winning The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin (NYRB). She was a recent judge for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. Until recently, she was Senior Editor (Chinese) at Asymptote Journal.

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Articles by Chenxin Jiang

Brown steel bell hanging from a mint-green wooden wall

Photo by Luís Perdigão on Unsplash

Trial Run

nothing is certain but and taxes

Translated from Chinese by Chenxin Jiang

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An Interview with Yan Lianke

By Chenxin Jiang

China is a great environment for an author, because such implausible things happen in everyday life.

Translated from Chinese by the author

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from “Memories of the Cowshed”

I knew that Zhang’s weapon must be a bicycle chain wrapped in rubber.

Translated from Chinese by Chenxin Jiang

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An Interview with Chan Koon-chung

By Chenxin Jiang

There is indeed no place like China–but that isn’t necessarily a good thing.

Translated from Chinese by the author