Translated Work
我老婆終於去露營
Title:
My Wife Finally Goes Camping
First Publication Date:
2006
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Language:
Monolingual (English)
Synopsis:
The male protagonist used to go camping with his wife every weekend before their marriage, but they stop going after having children. As he is obsessed with the idea of camping, he keeps begging his wife until he loses his temper. She eventually makes a wailed promise, but turns up with a huge bag of dirty clothes and old bed sheets.
Author
Biography:
Lam's publications include the fiction 我老婆終於去露營 (“My Wife Finally Goes Camping”).
Translator
Translator Biography:
Chiu is currently teaching General Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has translated a number of works from Chinese into English, including 《追憶與遺忘——對終極的沉思》(Memory and Oblivion: Mediations on Mortality) and 《家-香港公屋四十五年》(From Shelter to Home: 45 Years of Public Housing Development in Hong Kong).
Editor
Editor Biography:
Aili Mu is a Professor of Chinese at Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. She teaches courses on Chinese language, translation, Chinese cultural tradition and China today. Her research focuses on Chinese short-short stories. Her published scholarship on the genre has earned her a Franklin R. Buchanan Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (2018).
Link to Editor biography:
Editor Biography:
Chiu is currently teaching General Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has translated a number of works from Chinese into English, including 《追憶與遺忘——對終極的沉思》(Memory and Oblivion: Mediations on Mortality) and 《家-香港公屋四十五年》(From Shelter to Home: 45 Years of Public Housing Development in Hong Kong).
Link to Editor biography:
Name:
GOLDBLATT, Howard 葛浩文
Editor Biography:
Goldblatt was Research Professor of Chinese at the University of Notre Dame from 2002 to 2011, and is a prolific translator of modern Chinese fiction, renowned for his translations of the Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, among others. He is the founding editor of the periodical Modern Chinese Literature.
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Source Text Reference:
收入《香港小小說選》(1986),頁41-44。
Published Date of Source Text:
1986