Other Cities, Other Lives
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Chew Kok Chang
Translated from the Chinese by Shelly BryantLook inside the bookĀ Ā IĀ Ā Get the E-book
In Other Cities, Other Lives, travelogues are populated with swindlers and enterprising tour guides, where nothing is as itĀ seems. Closer to home, stories capture husbands, wives and children struggling with upheaval in the family.
Told in theĀ elegant, spare style of a Chinese scholar, Chewās micro-fiction reflects the voice of his generation, living through a time ofĀ immense change in the region. This is the first collection of his writing to be translated into English.Ā
The Cultural Medallion is Singaporeās highest cultural award, given to those who have achieved artistic excellence in theĀ areas of literature, dance, music, theatre and art. It was instituted in 1979 to recognise individuals whose artistic excellenceĀ and commitment to the arts have enriched and made a distinction to Singaporeās arts and cultural landscape. Epigram BooksāĀ Cultural Medallion series seeks to translate the works of Cultural Medallion winners writing in Tamil, Malay and ChineseĀ into English. Matching writers with some of the best translators working in the field today, these books are being madeĀ available to an English-language audience for the first time.
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Chew Kok Chang has published more than one hundred works, including poetry, novellas, short stories, essays andĀ childrenās books. Born in 1934 in Guangdong, he is also known by various pen names including Zhou Can, Qiu Ling, Yu Yin,Ā Lin Zhongyue, Zhou Zhixian and Zhou Aijia. His awards include the National Book Development Council of Singapore BookĀ Awards for Poetry and Childrenās and Youth Literature, the Singapore Chinese Literature Award and the Cultural Medallion.
Shelly BryantĀ is the translator of You Jin'sĀ In time, Out of Place, published by Epigram Books, and Sheng KeyiāsĀ Northern Girls, which was published by Penguin Books and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is also the author of four volumes of poetry and two travel guides on Suzhou and Shanghai.Ā Her translations of Sheng Keyiās novelĀ Death FugueĀ for Giramondo Press in Australia, and tennis player Li Naās memoirs forĀ Penguin Books, are forthcoming.
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- Description
- About the Author & Translator
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Chew Kok Chang
Translated from the Chinese by Shelly BryantLook inside the bookĀ Ā IĀ Ā Get the E-book
In Other Cities, Other Lives, travelogues are populated with swindlers and enterprising tour guides, where nothing is as itĀ seems. Closer to home, stories capture husbands, wives and children struggling with upheaval in the family.
Told in theĀ elegant, spare style of a Chinese scholar, Chewās micro-fiction reflects the voice of his generation, living through a time ofĀ immense change in the region. This is the first collection of his writing to be translated into English.Ā
The Cultural Medallion is Singaporeās highest cultural award, given to those who have achieved artistic excellence in theĀ areas of literature, dance, music, theatre and art. It was instituted in 1979 to recognise individuals whose artistic excellenceĀ and commitment to the arts have enriched and made a distinction to Singaporeās arts and cultural landscape. Epigram BooksāĀ Cultural Medallion series seeks to translate the works of Cultural Medallion winners writing in Tamil, Malay and ChineseĀ into English. Matching writers with some of the best translators working in the field today, these books are being madeĀ available to an English-language audience for the first time.
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Chew Kok Chang has published more than one hundred works, including poetry, novellas, short stories, essays andĀ childrenās books. Born in 1934 in Guangdong, he is also known by various pen names including Zhou Can, Qiu Ling, Yu Yin,Ā Lin Zhongyue, Zhou Zhixian and Zhou Aijia. His awards include the National Book Development Council of Singapore BookĀ Awards for Poetry and Childrenās and Youth Literature, the Singapore Chinese Literature Award and the Cultural Medallion.
Shelly BryantĀ is the translator of You Jin'sĀ In time, Out of Place, published by Epigram Books, and Sheng KeyiāsĀ Northern Girls, which was published by Penguin Books and longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize. She is also the author of four volumes of poetry and two travel guides on Suzhou and Shanghai.Ā Her translations of Sheng Keyiās novelĀ Death FugueĀ for Giramondo Press in Australia, and tennis player Li Naās memoirs forĀ Penguin Books, are forthcoming.
