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

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From Novel to Screenplay: Challenges and Pitfalls Merging Three Cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Western)

Mar.14.2008

From Novel to Screenplay: Challenges and Pitfalls Merging Three Cultures (Chinese, Japanese, Western)

Speaker: Shouhua Qi/Novelist, Screenwriter

"Twin Sun River", the second of Shouhua Qi's screenplays (the first is now in Hollywood), will be featured at the Academy's next playreading event hosted by Arlene Dahl on Monday, March 24, 2008.

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Ellen Muir
212-459-3630 ext 204
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PUBLISHED: Mar.13.2012

Western Literature in China and the Translation of a Nation

This book traces the contours of the ways in which Western literature (in both the broad and narrow sense) was introduced and received in China from the 1840s to the present. It is an attempt to navigate and unpack the complex dynamics, or fault zones, of texts (literary and sociopolitical), contexts (Chinese and Western), intertexts (translation and creative writing),...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.24.2009

Purple Mountain: A Story of the Rape of Nanking (English Chinese Bilingual Edition)

An unprecedented historical novel, Purple Mountain presents a riveting, profoundly intimate portrait of Nanjing and its people during the first six days after its fall to the Japanese army in 1937. Three editions of the novel, one English and two Chinese, were published in 2005. A screenplay Qi wrote based on the novel has been optioned for production. This English Chinese...

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PUBLISHED: Jul.20.2009

Love Me, Love My Dog and Other Stories: English Chinese Bilingual Edition

The 14 short stories collected in the book, all inspired by real-life events, are about people caught in the unsettling drama of a fast-changing China, about the average person who thrusts forward in life, stubbornly, despite the bewilderment, the setbacks, and sometimes, the stunning blows. Witty, poignant, absurd, and shocking, the stories were originally written in English and...

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2008

Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China

This collection features 120 short-short stories (from 100 to 300 words each), written by some of China's most dynamic and versatile authors. Traditional, experimental, and avant-garde, The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories will reinvigorate the position of young Chinese writers as a major presence in contemporary literature.

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2007

Red Guard Fantasies and Other Stories

The stories collected here are “fantasies” of a former Red Guard. They are about people caught in the unsettling dramas of Chinese society accelerating at a blistering pace in the decades after the Cultural Revolution.

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PUBLISHED: Jul.01.2005

When The Purple Mountain Burns

This novel tells the story of the events that occurred in Shouhua Qi's hometown during the winter of 1937-38. Told from multiple viewpoints, it focuses on the day before the Japanese army entered Nanking (the capital of China), and the first six days of the reign of terror that followed.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.18.1998

The Well-Beloved by Thomas Hardy

The delightful (and almost comic) story of an artist's 40-year quest for the incarnation of the ideal woman, which flits from woman to woman and remains forever elusive.

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PUBLISHED: Jan.18.1994

A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy

The story of a beautiful young woman caught in a love triangle, which ends with tragic pathos.

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Bridging the Pacific: Searching for Cross-Cultural Understanding between the United States and China

A collection of essays that intertwine his personal experiences with the politics of China and the United States, his native culture and his adopted one.

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PUBLISHED: Aug.10.2011

Twin-Sun River: An American POW in China

“Turncoats” and “Diabolic Brainwashing” are among the headlines that met the 21 young American GIs who refused repatriation when the armistice was signed to end the Korean War (1950-53) and chose to go to Red China. Hollywood films such as “The Manchurian Candidate” (1962) didn’t help ease the frenzy over the perceived Communist diabolism either. For a long time no one knows...

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Aug.23.2011 - 8:25 am

Why a new novel about an American POW from that long forgotten war?

Like everyone else in the US and in the world, for that matter, I was gripped by the story of Abu Ghraib in 2004 and 2005, the shocking photos of torture and abuse that were being...

Jul.30.2009 - 5:28 am

A Pair of (Not So Sharp) Blue Eyes: Misstep in Publishing My First Book

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...

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Aug.24.2011 - 5:05 pm

In response to: Current Trends in Publishing

Publishing, thy name is self-publishing (of sort) :-)

That's very true indeed. There is no getting around some degree of "self-publishing/publicizing/marketing)....

Aug.23.2011 - 4:12 pm

In response to: Current Trends in Publishing

When a good "middleman" (or woman) is hard to find....

When a good “middleman” (or woman) is hard to find, one has no choice but to go plunging into the big, wide, and wild...

Jul.30.2009 - 8:17 am

In response to: Starting a conversation

Twin-Sun River: A new novel about an American POW in China

Just wanted to add that this is what I've been working on for some time: a novel about an American Korean War POW in...

Jul.30.2009 - 8:08 am

In response to: Starting a conversation

All about history

I guess I've been writing "historical fiction" from day one, from the very first short story I wrote in 2002, which was...

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Jun.07.2009

Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China

Published by The Japan Times Online

Some of the accounts, like Wang Renshu's "Blowfish," a failed attempt to relieve his family's suffering and hunger by feeding them the deadly fish, are heart-rending. While the...

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Image Gallery: Twin-Sun River: An American POW in China

Creativity comes from "the abrasive juxtaposition" of life experiences. ”

—Mario Capecchi, Nobel Prize for Medicine 2007

About Shouhua

Born in the year of the "Great Leap Forward" ("Backward")/Grew up during the "Three Years of Natural Disaster" (the Famine) and the "Cultural Revolution"/Came to the US in the spring of 1989...."the abrasive juxtaposition" of life experiences has made who he...

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