Give-it-a-Go Translation Workshop
A few weeks ago, I got an email from the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, who were putting together a workshop to put together a collaborative translation of blog post by Deng Anqing, documenting life in lockdown close to the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak. Translation is often lonely work and opportunities like this […]
Xuedou Mountain – 雪窦山
Tamara and I went to Xuedou Mountain to see the famous Xuedou Temple and Big Buddha, however we didn’t have enough money on us at the time to buy entry tickets… instead we went for a walk and found another, smaller temple, where a woman taught us a little bit about the 7-stringed instrument, the […]