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<span style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;font-weight:normal">The Invisible Valley: An Epic Experiment in Creative Co-Translation</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red;font-weight:normal">Austin Woerner - Lecturer in English Language, Duke Kunshan University</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#990000;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#660000;font-weight:normal">Please join us for a book signing prior to this event at 2:00 PM on Monday, October 1, located at the Yale Bookstore (77 Broadway, New Haven CT 06511).</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#660000;font-weight:normal"><br>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#212121">When Chinese novelist Su Wei and his translator Austin Woerner first met in 2005, little did they know that their friendship would spark a ten-year-long experiment in creative co-translation
that would take them from the classrooms of Yale to the mountains of Hainan Island and back again. Join Woerner and Su and as they recount this literary odyssey, culminating in the publication of Woerner’s English translation of Su’s novel titled <em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The
Invisible Valley</span></em> in English this year. Author and translator will reveal the story behind the story, a coming-of-age narrative set during the Cultural Revolution against a backdrop of rainforest landscapes, Taoist mysticism, and Cantonese folklore.
In the process, they will share the joys and complexities of translation and their adventures in Chinese literature both on and off the page. </span><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#212121">A Chinese-English literary translator,<b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> Austin Woerner</span></b> has translated two volumes of poetry, <em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Doubled
Shadows: Selected Poetry of Ouyang Jianghe</span></em> and <em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Phoenix</span></em>, and edited the English edition of the innovative, bilingual Chinese literary journal <em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Chutzpah!</span></em>.
Together with Ou Ning, he co-edited the short fiction anthology <em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Chutzpah!: New Voices from China</span></em>. He has a BA in East Asian Studies from Yale and an MFA in creative
writing from the New School, formerly taught creative writing and translation at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, and is now a lecturer at Duke Kunshan University.</span><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#212121">Author <b><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Su Wei </span></b>spent ten years working on a rubber plantation on Hainan Island during the Cultural Revolution, and afterward
he was among the first mainland Chinese to pursue an advanced degree in the United States. He returned to China and played a key role in the Beijing literary scene during the 1980s “culture fever,” relocated permanently to the U.S. afterward, and since 1997
has been a lecturer at Yale University. He has published three novels and several books of short stories and personal essays in Chinese. <em><span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The Invisible Valley,</span></em> translated
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<span style="font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#212121">For more information: <a href="https://ceas.yale.edu/events/invisible-valley-epic-experiment-creative-co-translation">https://ceas.yale.edu/events/invisible-valley-epic-experiment-creative-co-translation</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The Yale-Readings Listserv is sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. To post announcements about poetry and fiction readings, send the full text
of the announcement, including contact information, to <a href="http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/yale-readings">
nancy.kuhl at yale.edu.</a> Messages sent directly to the Yale-Readings list may not be posted.
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