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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2015/11/23/asymptote-translation-contest/" target="_blank">Asymptote translation contest</a></h3>
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<p class="p1">Calling all emerging Chinese-English translators: submit to <i>Asymptote</i>'s $4,500 translation contest today We're awarding first prizes of $1,000 in three categories: fiction, poetry and a new category this year—nonfiction. $500 will also be awarded to one runner-up in each category. Judges are Michael Hofmann (poetry), Ottilie Mulzet (fiction) and Margaret Jull Costa (nonfiction). The deadline (15 Dec, 2015) is fast approaching, so hurry!</p>
<p class="p1">Details of the contest can be found here: <a href="http://asymptotejournal.com/contest"><span class="s1"><a href="http://asymptotejournal.com/contest" rel="nofollow">http://asymptotejournal.com/contest</a></span></a></p>
<p class="p1">Find the winners of our previous contest (and the citations of our two judges, Howard Goldblatt and Eliot Weinberger) here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/nbs5teb"><span class="s1"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nbs5teb" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/nbs5teb</a></span></a></p>
<p class="p1">In addition, we're very pleased to announce a new monthly column by Daniel Hahn: "Ask a Translator." Anyone who'd like to pose a translation-related question should email: <a href="mailto:askatranslator@asymptotejournal.com"><span class="s1"><a href="mailto:askatranslator@asymptotejournal.com">askatranslator@asymptotejournal.com</a></span></a>.</p>
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<p class="p5">Chinese highlights include</p>
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<li class="li6"><span class="s2">essays by Chen Li (<a href="http://www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/chen-li-two-lyric-essays/"><span class="s4"><a href="http://www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/chen-li-two-lyric-essays/" rel="nofollow">http://www.asymptotejournal.com/nonfiction/chen-li-two-lyric-essays/</a></span></a>)</span></li>
<li class="li6"><span class="s2">poetry by Ya Shi (<a href="http://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/ya-shi-floral-mutter/"><span class="s4"><a href="http://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/ya-shi-floral-mutter/" rel="nofollow">http://www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/ya-shi-floral-mutter/</a></span></a>)</span></li>
<li class="li6"><span class="s2">Dylan Suher's review of Kong Shangren's <i>The Peach Blossom Fan</i> (<a href="http://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/kung-shang-jen-the-peach-blossom-fan/"><span class="s4"><a href="http://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/kung-shang-jen-the-peach-blossom-fan/" rel="nofollow">http://www.asymptotejournal.com/criticism/kung-shang-jen-the-peach-blossom-fan/</a></span></a>)</span></li>
<li class="li5">and an extensive Hong Kong Poetry Feature curated by Chenxin Jiang, gathering poets Tang Siu Wa, Lok Fung, Eric Lui, Lau Yee-Ching, Yau Ching, Chung Kwok Keong, and translated by Eleanor Goodman, Nicholas Wong, Canaan Morse, Chenxin Jiang, Steve Bradbury, Emily Jones and Sophie Smith.</li>
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