Conversations with Nick Stember on Jia Pingwa’s Ugly Stone

We had the honor recently of talking with Nick Stember, a longtime translator of Chinese fiction and comics, and the official English-language translator of the renowned writer Jia Pingwa. On this podcast, we talk with Nick about his work, and about the intriguing Jia Pingwa short story “The Ugly Stone.”

If you are interested in Nick’s work (and you should be), here is where you should check out some of his work.

First, here is the link for the Jia Pingwa project:

And, here is the direct link to the Ugly Stone story, for those who want to read the story we talk about on the podcast:

http://www.ugly-stone.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ugly-Stone-_-Jia-Pingwa.pdf

Finally, on this page, Nick argues that Jia Pingwa belongs to the genre of Global Literature:

https://glli-us.org/2017/02/20/jia-pingwa-as-global-literature-by-nick-stember/

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