Emily Goedde (Comp Lit Ph.D. 2015) has translated Liang Hong's 2010 best-selling work of non-fiction, China in One Village: The Story of One Town and the Changing World. Published by Verso Press, the translation was reviewed in The New York Times (Ian Johnson, "How to Destroy a Village," June 22, 2021).
In June 2021 Emily participated in a panel with Liang Hong sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies at UC Irvine: "China in One Village: A Conversation on Literature and Translation in a Changing World." The panel included the author and the translator and several scholars in Chinese cultural studies, to discuss the response-ability of literature and translation to drastic social changes.
To learn more about Emily's path through the Ph.D. and beyond, read her Ph.D. Profile based on an interview by current Comp Lit graduate students Luiza Duarte Caetano and Duygu Ergun.
