That's why the Czech publisher was interested in the book. 'It's witty and funny, and it illustrates the everyday lives of Chinese people. Li is impressed by Liu's writing style, which she finds humorous and easy to understand. One of the other books she has translated is I Did Not Kill My Husband, by Liu Zhenyun. Li's translations of Yan's books will help Czech readers understand the path of China's recent development. Her latest translation is The Explosion Chronicles, also by Yan, which describes how a village in the writer's home province of Henan, Central China, has been transformed in the past three decades as a result of country's rapid economic development.

'I hope more Czech readers will share my delight in reading these stories,' she said. Li is constantly delighted by the plots that show how ordinary Chinese live their lives, how they earn their daily bread and how their fates change. Sometimes, I struggle to understand the writers' narrative styles.' 'I spend roughly the same amount of time reading the books when I am tired after a day spent translating. She finds the accounts of love, hardship, despair, sorrow and success in Chinese literature so compelling that she spends six hours a day, six days a week working on translations in her study. 'Films have taken the upper hand now, but literature is essential as well in narrowing the gulf in understanding,' said Li, who began studying Chinese in the 1990s and gained a doctorate in Chinese literature at Peking University 10 years ago. Recalling Zeman's gift, she said fruitful exchanges between China, the Czech Republic and other European countries rely heavily on gaining the trust of the general populace, winning hearts and minds: 'Literature and movies are the perfect vehicles to achieve that aim.'Īhead of Zeman's arrival in Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation at the weekend, Li was keen to deliver the message that the participants should support the translation of great literature and help bridge cultural gaps, even in an era of digital transformation. Suzana Li, from the Czech Republic, translated the book, along with works by other Chinese writers, such as Su Tong and Liu Zhenyun. It took Yan, a professor at Renmin, 20 years to plan and two years to write. The book, which won the Franz Kafka Prize in 2014, describes events in China during the 1950s and 60s. When Milos Zeman gave a speech at Renmin University of China in late 2014, the Czech president received a special gift: a Czech-language edition of The Four Books, a novel by Chinese writer Yan Lianke. (2013).Suzana Li holds her translation of The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke. The effectiveness of guided inductive instruction and deductive instruction on semantic radical development in Chinese character processing. An exploration of when and how New Zealand secondary school teachers introduce Chinese characters to beginners. Contributions of morphological awareness to adult L2 Chinese word meaning inferencing. Asian Journal of English Language Teaching, 12, 229–267. An annotated bibliography of selected research on Chinese ELT contexts and EFL/ESL learners. Quantitative methods in language acquisition research. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 27(4), 277–289. Research on teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language in and outside mainland China: A bibliometric analysis. Teaching Chinese as a second or foreign language to non-Chinese learners in mainland China (2014–2018). Theorizing affect in foreign language learning: An analysis of one learner’s responses to a communicative Portuguese course. English for Specific Purposes, 20(1), 1–14. Trends in research methods in applied linguistics: China and the West. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.ĭiao, J., & He, W. Essentials of research design and methodology. What effect do mixed sensory mode instructional formats have on both novice and experienced learners of Chinese characters? Learning and Instruction, 18(1), 96–108. Presentation factors in the learning of Chinese characters: The order and position of “hanyu pinyin” and English translations.

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