Sylvia Li-chun Lin

Sylvia Li-chun Lin (Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-born Chinese–English translator and a former associate professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Colorado Boulder^[1] and the University of Notre Dame.^[2] She has translated over a dozen novels with her husband Howard Goldblatt.

Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Born	Shanhua, Tainan, Taiwan
Spouse	Howard Goldblatt
Academic background
Alma mater	Tamkang University St. John's University University of Oregon University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Colorado, Boulder University of Notre Dame
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	林麗君
Simplified Chinese	林丽君
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lín Lìjūn Wade–Giles Lin2 Li4-chün1

Awards

• Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize^[3]
• 2000 – National Translation Award for translation of Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T’ien-wen^[4]
• 2011 – Man Asian Literary Prize for Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu^[5]

Works

Translations

Author	English title	Original title	Notes
Chu T’ien-wen	Notes of a Desolate Man	荒人手記	with Howard Goldblatt
Bi Feiyu	The Moon Opera	青衣
	Three Sisters	玉米
	Massage	推拿
Liu Zhenyun	The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon	我叫刘跃进
	I Did Not Kill My Husband	我不是潘金莲
	Remembering 1942	温故一九四二
Shih Shu-ching	City of the Queen	她名叫蝴蝶
Li Ang	The Lost Garden	迷園
Alai	The Song of King Gesar	格萨尔王
	Red Poppies	尘埃落定
Xi Ni Er	The Ernest Mask	认真面具
Li Yung-p'ing	Retribution: the Jiling Chronicles	吉陵春秋
Mo Yan	Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh	师傅越来越幽默
Song Ying	Apricot's Revenge	杏烧红
Beila	The Cursed Piano	魔咒钢琴
You Jin	Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops	听, 青春在哭泣

Academic

• Representing Atrocity: The 2/28 Incident and White Terror in Fiction and Film. Columbia University Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-231-14360-8.
• Push Open the Door: Poetry from Contemporary China. Copper Canyon Press 2011. ISBN 978-1556593307.
• Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries. Routledge. 2012. ISBN 978-0-415-68511-5. (co-edited with Tze-lan D. Sang)