Department of Foreign Languages
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Andrea Lingenfelter
ondi@speakeasy.org
(206) 954-7653
Education:
Ph.D., Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington, 1998
M.A., Yale University, East Asian Studies, 1984
B.A., Chinese Studies, UC San Diego, 1981
Background:
Dr Lingenfelter’s has travelled extensively in China since the early 1980s and spent a year teaching English at a university in Sichuan. She travels to Shanghai at least twice per year, in keeping with her interest in Shanghai writers. She is currently working with Shanghai poet Wang Yin, on a book-length collection, and she is planning to begin a translation of Wang Anyi’s novel, The Age of Enlightenment, in the fall of 2009. She is also completing a book-length collection of poems by Chengdu-based poet, Zhai Yongming, for Zephyr Press. In the spring of 2008, she was awarded a PEN Translation Fund grant for her work on Annie Baobei’s novel, Padma, which she expects to finish translating in the spring or summer of 2009.
Publications:
Novels in Translation:
- Candy, by Mian Mian. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2003.
- Farewell My Concubine, by Lilian Lee (Li Bihua, Li Pik-wah). New York: William Morrow and Co., 1993.
- The Last Princess of Manchuria, by Lilian Lee. New York: Morrow, 1989.
Anthologies Containing Her Translations
- Hayden’s Ferry International. Fall/Winter 2007-2008, Issue 41.
- Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Tina Chang, Natalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar eds. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2008.
- Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, No. 5 (2007).
- Images of the World, Songs from the Soul. Taipei: Taibeishi zhengfu wenhuaju, 2006.
- Full Tilt 1: A Journal of East-Asian Poetry, Translation and the Arts. http://fulltilt.ncu.edu.tw/ (poems by Hsia Yü.)
- Homeland and the World: An Anthology of Poems for the 2005 Taipei Poetry Festival. Hung Hung and Steve Bradbury, eds. Taipei: Taibeishizhengfu wenhua ju, 2005.
- Sailing to Formosa: A Poetic Companion to Taiwan. Michelle Yeh, N. G. D. Malmqvist and Xu Huizhi eds. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
- 35th Poetry International Festival, Rotterdam, 2004. (Chapbook, poems by Ling Yu)
Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry. Michelle Yeh and N. G. D. Malmqvist, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. - Mercury Rising: Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan. Frank Stewart, Arthur Sze and Michelle Yeh, eds. Manoa 15:1 (2003).
- The Poem and the World: An International Anthology, Book II. Seattle: The Literary Center, 1994.
Film Subtitles:
- Temptress Moon, Chen Kaige dir., 1996.
Studies:
- “Opposition and Adaptation in the Poetry of Zhai Yongming and Xia Yu:” In New Perspectives on Chinese Poetry, Christopher Lupke, ed. New York: Palgrave, 2008.
“Way Out: Margin as Sanctuary in Annie Baobei’s Padma.” Conference paper, ACCL 2007, Chengdu. - “The Prose Poem in Chinese,” editor, with Steve Bradbury. In Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, No. 5 (2007), pp. 11-30.
- “A Marked Category: Nine Women of Modern Century Chinese Poetry, 1920-1997.” Unpublished dissertation, University of Washington, 1998.
Interviews:
- “China's Foremost Feminist Poet Zhai Yongming Converses on Her Art, Her Bar and Chinese Women's Writing, Past and Present.” Full Tilt 3: A Journal of East-Asian Poetry, Translation and the Arts. http://fulltilt.ncu.edu.tw/
- “Howard Goldblatt on How the Navy Saved His Life and Why Literary Translation Matters.” Full Tilt 2: A Journal of East-Asian Poetry, Translation and the Arts. http://fulltilt.ncu.edu.tw/
