Howard Goldblatt is the foremost translator of modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the West. He has published English translations of more than thirty novels and story collections by writers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and he has also authored and edited half a dozen books on Chinese literature.

Sylvia Li-chun Lin teaches modern and contemporary Chinese literature, culture, and cinema at the University of Notre Dame. She translates short stories, poetry, and novels by contemporary writers from Taiwan and China. Her co-translation, with Howard Goldblatt, of Chu T'ien–wen's Notes of a Desolate Man was awarded 1999 Translation of the Year Prize by the American Literary Translators Association.

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