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Dave Haysom

Contributor

Dave Haysom

Dave Haysom (www.spittingdog.net) is a translator of contemporary Chinese literature. He has been joint managing editor of Pathlight magazine since 2014, and in 2015 he helped launch the “Read Paper Republic” project, a yearlong initiative to publish an online translation every week. He has also written on Chinese literature and popular culture for publications including Granta and The Millions.

Articles by Dave Haysom

Cheesy Porridge—Individual Taste & Cultural Style in Translation

When my in-laws occasionally make the trip from rural China to visit us in Beijing, they find my behavior around the house an endless source of fascination. My brother-in-law once found the sight of a…

A Faun’s Afternoon

The hand of the pocket watch winds on with a sound like mocking laughter.

Translated from Chinese by Dave Haysom

Multilingual

Let’s Talk about Love and Duty and Being Nice to People

Pictures of Shi Tiesheng show him wearing the standard issue baggy jumper and squareish, plastic-framed glasses sported by intellectuals of the eighties, and—almost invariably—smiling. Sometimes…