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Literary translator Jenna Tang will share her experience translating Lin Yi-Han’s novel Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise, which is widely recognized as the most influential novel of Taiwan’s #MeToo movement. In addition to exploring the inherent artistic questions of the work of translation itself, Jenna will touch on the intersection of trauma and literature, the process of bringing the work to English-speaking readers, and her interactions with the late author’s family.

Poet Ye Mimi has been called “among the most innovative poets and filmmakers to have emerged in Taiwan in the twenty-first century.”  She will screen three of her short films (40 minutes total): “They Are There But I Am Not,” made while Ms. Ye was at the Art Institute of Chicago; “Hail the Bodhisattva of Collected Junk,” a collaboration with Taiwanese singer Ro Sirong; and “Cease Susurrating,” which is dedicated to Ms. Ye’s late husband and is an abstracted depiction of funerals in Indonesia. All three films have English subtitles. After the screening, Ms.

Poet Ye Mimi has been called “among the most innovative poets and filmmakers to have emerged in Taiwan in the twenty-first century.” Her most recent books are “Poetry Tarot” and “Shamans: Poems and Essays,” both 2023. Ms. Ye is fluent in English, and she will read her a selection of her work in both Chinese and English translation. Q&A will be in English and in Chinese with English translation.

Lauren Szymanski of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center chat with students who are interested in learning more about HNC.

Commencement reception for seniors and their families for the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Comparative Literature, German, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, and Russian.