The Unfilial: Four Tragic Tales from Modern China

About Yao Emei

Yao Emei (1968 - ) was born in Hubei province and currently lives in Shanghai. A prolific author she has been praised for her surgical prose sensitivity to character and ability to grapple with difficult topics. She has won the People's Literature Award and the Shanghai Literature Excellent Novella Award and her works have been translated into English Russian German Japanese and Korean. Will Spence is a freelance literary translator based in London. Works he has translated include The Promise: Love and Loss in Modern China by Xinran and China Adorned: Ritual and Custom of Ancient Cultures an encyclopaedia of the fashion adornment and rituals of Chinese ethnic minority groups. He has lectured on translation practice and theory at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Olivia Milburn is professor of Chinese language and literature at Seoul National University. In 2018 Milburns translation work was recognised by the Chinese government with a Special Book Award of China which honours contributions to bridging cultures and fostering understanding. Honey Watson is a science fiction writer and translator living in Las Vegas Nevada. She is a translator of both fiction and non-fiction from Mandarin into English holding degrees from University College London and Peking University Beijing. Her debut novel Lessons in Birdwatching was released by Angry Robot books in August 2023. Dr Martin Ward graduated from the University of Leeds (1999) with a BA in Chinese and Japanese Studies gaining his M.Ed. (2003) and PhD (2006) in Asian Culture from Hiroshima University as a Monbusho Scholar. He is currently working as a lecturer in Chinese and Japanese Translation at the University of Leeds where he founded the now expansive East Asian Translation Pedagogy Advance (EATPA) network and is also the joint chief editor of the Language Scholar journal hosted by the Centre for Excellence in Language Teaching at the University of Leeds.