China Inside-Out
Participants
Shu-mei Shih, professor at UCLA
Teaches contemporary Chinese literature and Asian American literature and is widely published in journals. Her two books are The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semi colonial China 1917-1937 (2001) and Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (2007)
Wang Ping, poet and novelist
Wang Ping was born in China and went to the U.S. in 1985. Her publications of poetry and prose include American Visa, Foreign Devil, Of Flesh and Spirit, New Generation: Poetry from China Today, Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China, The Magic Whip, The Dragon Emperor, and The Last Communist Virgin.
LuMing Mao, professor at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
LuMing Mao is a Professor of English and Director of the Asian/Asian American Studies Program at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is an award-winning academic and author of three books and numerous articles, including Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: The Making of Chinese American Rhetoric (2006)
Liu Hong, novelist and teacher
Liu Hong grew up near the Chinese-Korean border but she has lived in the U.K. since 1989. Her novels include Startling Moon, The Magpie Bridge, The Touch and Wives of the East Wind.
Dr. Amy Lai, writer and lecturer.
A former professor in literature and media studies Amy Lai is currently based in Boston where she now studies law. Amy has a PhD from Cambridge, and is the author of Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora. She writes and lectures on creative writing, film and media studies, and Chinese-Western comparative literature.
Xujun Eberlein, fiction writer
Xujun Eberlein grew up in Chongqing, has lived in the US since 1988, and holds a PhD from MIT. She has written numerous articles about China. Her award-winning stories have been published in several countries, including the US, Canada and the UK and collected in 'Apologies Forthcoming.'
Chiew-Siah Tei, novelist, screenwriter and playwright.
Originally from southern Malaysia Chiew-Siah Tei was a columnist for Malaysian Chinese publications before coming to Glasgow first in 1994 and again in 2002, to complete her PhD in Creative Writing and Film Studies. Her first book It’s Snowing (in Chinese) is about her experience as an outsider in Scotland. Her first novel in English is Little Hut of Leaping Fishes.
Lesley Glaister, novelist and teacher of creative writing.
Lesley Glaister is an award-winning English novelist now teaching creative writing at the University of Edinburgh. Among her 12 published novels are Honour Thy Father, Trick or Treat, As Far as You Can Go and Nina Todd Has Gone.
Dilys Rose, writer
Dilys Rose is a fiction and poetry writer, based in Edinburgh. She has published ten books, most recently Bodywork, shortlisted for the Sundial/SAC poetry award, 2008. Recent collaborations include the libretto for a new opera, Kaspar Hauser, Child of Europe.
Dr.Judith Misrahi-Barak, Paul-Valéry University Montpellier III, France.
Judith Misrahi-Barak read English Literature at the University of Paris III and at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and wrote her Doctorate on the Writing of childhood in Caribbean literature. She has published widely on Caribbean writers in international journals, and regularly organizes international conferences with the participation of writers. She is Co-Director of Cerpac (Research Centre on the Commonwealth) and General Editor of Les Carnets du Cerpac (Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée).
Dr. Margaret Hillenbrand, lecturer
Margaret Hillenbrand is Lecturer in Modern Chinese at the University of Oxford, and a fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of Literature , Modernity, and the Practice of Resistance: Japanese and Taiwanese Fiction, 1960-1990 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), and she has published articles in a range of scholarly journals.
A C Clarke, poet
A C Clarke is a poet and active member of Scottish PEN who lives in Glasgow. She has published The Gallery on the Left (Akros Press, November 2003) Breathing Each Other In, (Blinking Eye Publishers) 2005, Messages of Change (Oversteps Books 2008). She was the Makar for the Federation of Writers (Scotland) from 2007-2008.
Dr. Bashabi Fraser
Bashabi Fraser is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University. Her research and writing concentrates on diasporic themes as exemplified in her most recent epic poem 'From the Ganga to the Tay.' Author and editor of collections of poetry and short stories and children's writer, she is currently working on a project on the personal documents of Scots in India with a view to establishing a national resource centre.