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Pu Wang

Pu Wang is associate professor of Chinese literature and chair of comparative literature at Brandeis University. He received his PhD in comparative literature from NYU, in 2012. His books include The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Moruo and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018), a monograph in English, and Baota ji qita, a book of poetry in Chinese. He is currently writing a long poem and working on a series of articles concerning modern poetry, the global ’60s, and travel writing. He is also a translator. icon

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The renowned Chinese science fiction writer Cixin Liu is best known as the author of the best-selling, Obama-beloved, Hugo-winning, and truly mind-bending trilogy ...

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