Sylvia Li-chun Lin
# 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 and the University of Notre Dame. She has translated over a dozen novels with her husband Howard Goldblatt.

## Awards

* Liang Shih-chiu Literary Translation Prize
* 2000 – National Translation Award for translation of Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu T’ien-wen
* 2011 – Man Asian Literary Prize for Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu

## 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 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Bi Feiyu | Three Sisters | 玉米 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Bi Feiyu | Massage | 推拿 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Liu Zhenyun | The Cook, the Crook, and the Real Estate Tycoon | 我叫刘跃进 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Liu Zhenyun | I Did Not Kill My Husband | 我不是潘金莲 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Liu Zhenyun | Remembering 1942 | 温故一九四二 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Shih Shu-ching | City of the Queen | 她名叫蝴蝶 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Li Ang | The Lost Garden | 迷園 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Alai | The Song of King Gesar | 格萨尔王 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Alai | Red Poppies | 尘埃落定 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Xi Ni Er | The Ernest Mask | 认真面具 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Li Yung-p'ing | Retribution: the Jiling Chronicles | 吉陵春秋 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Mo Yan | Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh | 师傅越来越幽默 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Song Ying | Apricot's Revenge | 杏烧红 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| Beila | The Cursed Piano | 魔咒钢琴 | with Howard Goldblatt |
| 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)
