來自大連的電話 (簡體中英對照)

　　The JINTIAN
[今天]
series of contemporary literature features new and innovative writing from mainland China and abroad. Titles in the series are edited by Bei Dao, Lydia H. Liu, and Christopher Mattison.

　　A collaborative venture between Zephyr Press, the Jintian Literary Foundation, and The Chinese University Press, each bilingual title highlights the ever-changing literary culture of China while simultaneously expanding the English language with a wave of new voices in translation.
作者簡介

　　HAN DONG was born in
1961
in Nanjing, where he continues to live and work as a full-time writer. He has a long history in the Chinese contemporary poetry scene:
he was not only very influential in avant-garde poetry in the
1980s but continues to be highly regarded as a poet today and has a seriously devoted following. He has edited groundbreaking literary magazines and websites such as Them and Today and was a leader of the
1998
”Fracture”
movement, which encouraged independent writers to break free of conventional literary values. Today, characteristically, he continues to court controversy with his blogs and essays. He is also a respected novelist-his first, published in translation as Banished!
by University of Hawai’’i Press, was long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize
2008. He has won independent poetry prizes in China, and has made several literary tours in the West in recent years.

　　NICKY HARMAN’’s great passion is the translation of contemporary Chinese literature, and she has had the privilege of working on several prize-winning novels, as well as short stories, nonfiction, and Xmost recently-poetry. Besides her translation work, Harman is active on the Chinese translated fiction website, Paper Republic, and in literary translation organisations in the UK.