Eileen Cheng-yin Chow
Eileen Chengyin Chow (Chinese: 周成蔭) is a sinologist, Chinese translator and University Teacher.[1] She works for the Duke University and for the Shih Hsin University in Taipei, Taiwan.[2]
She graduated in Literature from Harvard University and studied her Ph.D in Comparative Literature at Stanford University.[3] Together with Carlos Rojas, in 2009 she translated to English Brothers, the longest novel written by the Chinese novelist Yu Hua. The novel was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and was awarded France's Prix Courrier International in 2008.[4][5]
She is director of the Cheng Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism at the Shih Hsin University.[6]
She is the granddaughter of Cheng Shewo, a journalist, publisher, and educator of the Republic of China, who founded the Shih Hsin University in Taiwan,[7] and the niece of Taiwanese sociologist Lucie Cheng.[8]
Selected publications edit
- Rojas, C., and E. C. Y. Chow. Rethinking chinese popular culture: Cannibalizations of the canon, 2008. ISBN 9781134032242[9]
- Yu, H. Brothers: A Novel by Yu Hua. Translated by Carlos Rojas and E. Cheng-yin Chow. Pantheon, 2009. ISBN 9780307386069
- Rojas, C., and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 9780199765607
- Rojas, C., and E. Chow, eds. Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas. Oxford University Press, 2013
- Lung Yingtai, translated by Eileen Cheng-yin Chow: 1949: China, Trauma and Memory, Los Angeles Review of Books, 2020. ISBN 9781940660691
References edit
- ^ "Meet LARB China Channel Team: Academic Editor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow". BLARB. 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Eileen Chengyin Chow | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ Abrahamsen, Eric. "Eileen Cheng-yin Chow". Paper Republic. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "Courrier international - Actualités France et Monde". Courrier international (in French). Retrieved 2021-11-26.
- ^ Yu, Hua. "Short story: Boy in the twilight by Yu Hua". Retrieved 2018-03-21.
- ^ "Cheng She-Wo Institute for Chinese Journalism". Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ "What the Movie Gets Right and Wrong about the 'Rich Asians'｜Insight｜2018-09-17｜web only". CommonWealth Magazine. Retrieved 2022-08-28.
- ^ Ya-chen, Chen (2014-07-11). New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics: The Centennial of the End of the Qing Dynasty. Routledge. p. 162. ISBN 978-1-135-02006-4.
- ^ Rojas, Carlos; Chow, Eileen, eds. (2008). Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon. doi:10.4324/9780203886649. ISBN 978-1-134-03224-2.