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Olympic Voices from China

April 2008

Footnotes Like Skyscrapers

“I want translations with copious footnotes, footnotes reaching up like skyscrapers to the top of this or that page so as to leave only the gleam of one textual line between commentary and eternity.”…

Red Bean Sticky Cakes and Running

I am a countrywoman.

Translated from Chinese by Victoria Hsieh

Level A

By Huang Yongmei

Basically nobody had doubts about the name of A-Gump.

Translated from Chinese by Erin Yu-Tien Huang

Little Girl Lost

Dong Putao hadn’t been at work long when a shadow passed over the door.

Translated from Chinese by John Barthelette

Love’s Labor

“You noticed the way she came over, her chest out, eyes narrowed? She’s interested.”

Translated from Chinese by Hu Ying

Learn

Wang Hanfang

At the time, young wives in our village didn’t have regular names.

Translated from Chinese by Hu Ying

Feminine Spirit, Unreconstructed

The two of them are quite different in the ways they paint, and their works have distinctly different styles.

Translated from Chinese by Hu Ying

Morning Cloud, Evening Rain

Yet she pulls me like the moon. The melancholy between her eyebrows makes my heart throb with pain.

Translated from Chinese by the author

Random Notes on Beijing

Beijing’s cab drivers are the best in the world.

Translated from Chinese by Hu Ying