Shouhua Qi “A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling...." Thomas Hardy

Shouhua Qi

Author Biography

Born in the year of the "Great Leap Forward" ("Backward")
Grew up during the "Three Years of Natural Disaster" and the "Cultural Revolution"
Came to the US in the spring of 1989
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Life. "Cultural Revolution." Reading on my own. Cross-cultural ventures.

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A Pair of (Not So Sharp) Blue Eyes: Misstep in Publishing My First Book
July 30, 2009
- The first published book of mine is a translation of Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes. I signed the contract to translate the Victorian novel near the end of 1985, when China was still caught in the tide of a revival of leaning which had begun fervently in the early 1980s. This was after years of cultural proletarianization. Classics from Western, as well as Chinese literature, were hot items ...
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